Chile hands luxury watches stolen from actor Keanu Reeves over to the FBI
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The FBI will arrange for their return to
Reeves , best known for his roles in action franchises such as The Matrix and John Wick.
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 the Trump administration's Secretary of Homeland Security,
Kristi Noem , arrived in the South American country for meetings with Chilean officials about transnational crime, among other issues.
Noem was also the victim of a robbery attributed to a Chilean national living illegally in the US, when her handbag was stolen last April at a Washington restaurant.
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Reeves' six watches are valued at a total of US$125,000, said Marcelo Varas, a police officer from Chile's robbery investigation squad.
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