Dramatic video shows $500K Park Avenue smash-and-grab

Dramatic surveillance video exhibits the second a trio of robbers — one swinging a sledgehammer — smashed their approach right into a high-end Park Avenue jewellery retailer over the weekend.

The brazen heist passed off round 3:30 a.m. Saturday at Cellini jewelers within the 400 block of Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

The NYPD, which launched the video, stated the thieves acquired away with greater than $500,000 in merchandise.

The footage exhibits the three intruders — all of them sporting hoods, masks and gloves — busting by means of the primary set of doorways on the retailer, then utilizing a sledgehammer to breach the second glassed entryway, giving them entry to the inside.

Surveillance video from the NYPD exhibits three suspects busting into Cellini jewelers on Park Avenue early Saturday.

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The crooks used a sledgehammer to smash their approach into the enterprise, which was closed for the evening.

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With out losing a second, the bandits proceed to smash and knock down show circumstances to plunder their contents, which they stuff into ready sacks.

At one level, the crooks shatter a number of adjoining glass stands and seize handfuls of expensive watches, too.

“A full stock of the objects eliminated is pending right now,” cops stated in a press release. “The estimated worth of the objects eliminated is over $500,000.”

The robbers fled the ransacked retailer on foot earlier than leaping right into a grey or silver sedan, an NYPD spokeswoman stated. The getaway automobile sped off east on East 56th Avenue, the rep stated.

Within the video, the burglars are seen knocking over glass show circumstances to steal their precious contents.

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Cops stated the bandits acquired away with greater than $500,000 in merchandise.

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All three suspects wore hoods, masks and gloves to obscure their faces and canopy their tracks.

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Cellini carries a wide selection of high-priced baubles, together with diamond petal earrings that go for $12,000 and a Pave diamond oval and bar yellow-diamond gold cuff bracelet that runs $17,600, in accordance with the shop’s web site. The store additionally sells a Girard-Perregaux tourbillon watch that fetches $172,000.

As of Monday morning, no arrests have been made in reference to the housebreaking. The NYPD is now asking for the general public’s assist in monitoring down the suspects.

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Police are asking for the general public’s assist in finding the trio of thieves.

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Items of discarded jewellery are seen on the glass-littered flooring of the shop following the heist.

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The shop on Park Ave. carries high-end gems and watches.

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In line with NYPD’s newest crime statistics, burglaries and grand larcenies have been up greater than 31% and 41% respectively, whereas robberies have seen a rise of 35.5%, in comparison with the identical time final yr.

Total, main crime in New York Metropolis has surged by greater than 31%.