article_snippet.sent: And they reportedly got away with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of gems and cash -- even, in the educated guess of one former police official, as much as 200 million pounds, or $300 million.
article_snippet.sent: $4.8M in gold swiped from N.C. highway.
article_snippet.sent: The police statement did not put a value on the amount of the haul.
article_snippet.sent: But numerous British news organizations put the figure in the hundreds of thousands of pounds, which translates into even more hundreds of thousands of dollars.
article_snippet.sent: But Roy Ramm, a former chief of the Flying Squad, an economic crime unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service, came up with a much higher guess.
article_snippet.sent: I would not be surprised, given where this one is, in Hatton Garden, if 200 million pounds is around about the amount stolen," Ramm said on BBC Radio 4.
highlights_snippet.sent: Estimates of the value of the items taken rage from hundreds of thousands of pounds to 200 million pounds .
  