Crooks caught on camera nabbing jewelry worth $100K - New York Post
Surveillance footage shows two desperate thieves shooting and kicking a locked jewelry store’s door in Chinatown — and getting away with $100,000 worth of gold and gems.
The crooks walked into Lucky Diamond Corp. inside International Jewelers store at 80 Bowery on Tuesday around 2:15 p.m. One man flashed a gun, while the other jumped over the counter and began stuffing a bag with the jewelry, police said.
“They come in and jump inside,” Lucky Diamond Corp. owner Charlie Wong recounted to the Post. “[He] jumped over this counter.”
As the pair ransacked the place, a worker at the store pressed the panic button and locked the door.
“They had [a] gun,” Wong said, explaining that he was afraid people would be killed. “Everybody was scared.”
Video shows the gunman firing one round at the glass door, as his accomplice kicks at it, shattering the glass.
Different surveillance footage shows a third man wearing sunglasses and standing outside the store, directly in front of the window, with a large black umbrella, though it wasn’t immediately clear if he was involved in the crime.
Suddenly, shards of glass go flying as the pair of thieves is seen leaving through the hole in the glass door. The hooded men then cross through oncoming traffic, with the black bag full of loot in tow, the video shows.
The duo fled with a bag of pricey baubles in a blue and green sedan, possibly a BMW, and took off on the Manhattan Bridge towards Brooklyn, police said.
Police are investigating whether more than the two thieves were involved in the heist.
