These are the suspects wanted in $100K jewelry heist - New York Post
Police released images of the thieves they say ripped off $100,000 worth of bracelets from a Chinatown jewelry store and then shot and kicked their way past an unlocked door to make their getaway.
Cops say two men – one in a white hard hat – walked into the Lucky Diamond Corp. inside International Jewelers store at 80 Bowery on Tuesday around 2:15 p.m.
One of the men flashed a gun, while the second hopped over the store’s counter and shoved 123 pieces of gold and gems inside a bag.
“They come in and jump inside,” Lucky Diamond Corp. owner Charlie Wong recounted to The Post Tuesday. “[He] jumped over this counter.”
Surveillance footage appears to show the man in the hard hat firing one round at the front door as his partner-in-crime, who wore a baseball cap, kicks at it, shattering the glass before they both run out of the store.
The bandits fled the scene in a light-colored sedan southbound on Bowery then Brooklyn-bound on the Manhattan Bridge, police said.
During the stick-up, cops say two other male accomplices – one holding an umbrella and the other in a yellow hard hat – acted as lookouts outside the shop.
One of them ran off southbound on Bowery and the other one fled inside a dark-colored sedan northbound on Bowery, according to authorities. Police released images of all the suspects late Wednesday.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to called the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-8477.
