Three thieves smashed through the glass doors of a Park Avenue jewelry store with a sledgehammer before making off with half a million dollars in gems, surveillance video released by the NYPD shows.
The heist happened around 3:30 am on Saturday at Cellini Jewelers on 56th Street in midtown Manhattan.
Three suspects used a sledgehammer to break through the glass doors at the front of the store.
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Surveillance video shows the three masked suspects breaking through two glass doors then smashing display cases and grabbing watches and jewelry.
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The smash-and-grab burglary lasted just three minutes before the thieves fled in a silver sedan waiting outside the store.
None of the suspects have been approved by the police.
The suspects smashed display cases and store watches and other jewelry.
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The thieves made off with more than $500,000 worth of valuables.
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There have been more than 12,000 burglaries so far this year throughout New York City, a 31.5% increase over the same time frame last year, according to NYPD data.
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A similar smash-and-grab targeted Rocco’s Jewelry in the Bronx in August, when thieves made off with $2.15 million worth of merchandise.
The NYPD is offering a $3,500 reward for information leading to the arrests of the suspects in Saturday’s heist.