A suspected getaway driver was charged in a Southwest Florida jewelry store robbery.
United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe recently announced the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging 52-year-old Ivel Sanchez Rivera, of Hialeah in South Florida, with conspiracy and interference with commerce by robbery and use and brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence.
According to the criminal complaint, on January 6, 2026, two armed assailants entered the Tio Jewelers in Cape Coral from an adjacent vacant business space while the jewelry store was closed. Upon the arrival of the manager that morning to the store, the robbers restrained the manager and forced a safe to be opened. The robbers then took a large amount of jewelry and two firearms from the store. The robbers left in a getaway vehicle driven by a third individual who was later identified as Sanchez Rivera…