He’s black, not blue, so Sunspot or Obsidian maybe.

Remember, squids: if you’re in a big city, cops are better at responding to one big thing in one location than ten medium sized things across the entire metro.

Bingo. My coworker needed this almost everywhere that served baked goods because she had a serious cinnamon allergy. Depending on what was being made, it could be bad enough that just the scent of something baking that contained a decent amount of cinnamon, like pies, would be enough to need a couple Benadryl.

…Because the metals are likely melted down for scrap value and the jewels are probably popped out and sold to gray-market connections. Unless you happen to run into a jeweler who REALLY KNOWS THEIR SHIT, there’s really not a good way to trace a gem back to the piece it came from unless that jewel is incredibly identifiable, not worked further after its theft, and of a known provenance.

It’s not “oh there’s a shadowy dude who ordered them to be stolen away so they could be cashed in”, it’s because jewelry theft is a highly practiced art and anyone smart enough to put a heist together like this and simply vanish is also smart enough to make sure the evidence is gone within days. Puts real reasonable doubt into a jury or judge when your prosecutor has to say “well, we don’t HAVE THE JEWELRY, and we can’t GET IT BACK, but I swear this is the dude”.

It’s like having your car stolen and chopped.

But you’ve got to know the territory

Hey hey, it’s not JUST about that!

It’s also because it classifies child marriage as abuse. You can still get married to or marry off your child as young as 12 in some states.