Video: Pair scores watches worth $300K in smash-and-grab heist
11/22/2016 6:34 am PST
via WPIX:
NEW YORK -- (WPIX) -- Cops released surveillance video showing a rapid heist at an Upper East Side jewelry shop where the robbers took off with more than $300,000 worth of watches Monday morning.
The pair, wearing winter garments to cover their faces, walked in Jaeger-Lecoultre Jewelry Store on Madison Avenue around 10:40 a.m. when one of the men pulled out a gun and ordered the three employees to lay down on the floor, police said. The accomplice proceeded to smash two display boxes with a claw hammer and took five watches valued at more than $300,000, according to the NYPD.
In a span of a few minutes, the duo fled on Madison Avenue and then eastbound on E. 62nd Street.
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