Chilean police return $125K in luxury watches stolen from Keanu Reeves
Global News
The FBI will arrange for the watches' return to Reeves, including an engraved Rolex worth at least US$9,500.
Chilean authorities announced Tuesday that six valuable watches stolen from Canadian actor Keanu Reeves were handed over to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), months after recovering them in a police raid.
The FBI will arrange for the watches’ return to Reeves, including an engraved Rolex worth at least US$9,500. The 60-year-old actor’s six watches are valued at a total of US$125,000, according to Marcelo Varas, a police officer from Chile’s robbery investigation squad.
Chilean prosecutors told reporters that Reeves had identified the watches as those stolen from his Los Angeles home during a string of high-profile burglaries in December 2023.
The announcement was made as Trump’s secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, arrived in the South American country for meetings with Chilean officials about transnational crime, among other issues.
According to authorities, the watches stolen from the John Wick actor’s Hollywood Hills home nearly two years ago turned up in Santiago, Chile’s capital, when police raided homes and uncovered stolen cars, iPhones, luxury watches and designer purses.
That operation coincided with another Chilean investigation, coordinated with the FBI, into a spate of burglaries by South America-based crime groups targeting multi-million-dollar homes in the U.S., many belonging to celebrities and professional athletes, such as Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes.
In February, seven Chilean nationals were charged with conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property over burglaries in which they stole valuables worth over US$2 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Middle District Florida.
According to the complaint, the individuals were members of a South American theft group that burglarized the homes of professional athletes around the United States.
