Rapper Young Dolph is out almost half a million dollars in jewelry after his car was broken into while sitting in a Cracker Barrel parking lot earlier this week.
The 33-year-old Memphis, Tennessee, rapper was eating lunch at the restaurant in Fairburn, Georgia, a suburb southwest of Atlanta, on Wednesday when someone came into the restaurant and said his custom camouflage-painted Mercedes-Benz SUV had been broken into, according to Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB.
The thieves made off with a laundry list of items, mostly jewelry. Included in the stolen items was a Richard Mille watch valued at approximately $230,000, two diamond chains valued at approximately $57,000 and $27,000, a Patek Philippe watch valued at approximately $85,000 and Cartier sunglasses valued at $24,000. A Glock handgun, Pirelli backpack, iPad and his $3,000 MacBook were also stolen, Dolph told police.
Dolph, whose real name is Adolph Thornton Jr., has had four albums reach the Billboard Top 100, including his debut in 2016. He also appeared on rapper O.T. Genasis's 2015 hit single, "Cut It." That song peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard charts, sold over 2 million copies and has over 200 million views on YouTube.
Police have surveillance video of the break-in, but have not arrested any suspects.
"It was unusual in a number of ways," Fairburn Police Department Assistant Police Chief Anthony Bazydlo told WSB. "No. 1, we see the suspects in the video. They come to this vehicle three separate times."
Bazydlo told WSB that Dolph flashed his lights multiple times before exiting the vehicle, saying, "That's interesting to us in terms of what was happening with the vehicle. Was it being locked? Unintentionally unlocked? We don't know."
Dolph is a regular poster on Instagram, where he is currently holding a contest to give away a different camouflage-painted car, but has not mentioned the theft.
Young Dolph nearly died in a shooting in September 2017 -- one of multiple times he's been targeted. He was shot in front of a Shoe Palace store at Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles and taken to the hospital in critical condition.
He was also shot at, but not struck, in a drive-by in North Carolina in February 2017. His single "100 Shots" is based on that attack.
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