An African-American smashed the window of the Roosevelt Avenue store in Flushing around 4 p.m. Friday (26) and stole a total of $32,000 worth of jewelry before fleeing in broad daylight.
A hole was punched in the window and a hammer suspected to be used by the culprit to break the window was left on the floor.
Police investigated at the scene.
A hole was punched in the window and a hammer suspected to be used by the culprit to smash the window was left on the ground.
Police investigating at the scene.
Police investigating outside the Lukfook Jewelry store in Flushing.
The window of Lukfook Jewelry was broken and there was a gaping hole, and the jewelry and boxes inside were in disarray. (Dan Lin / Epoch Times)
The thief reached inside the window and stole the jewelry. (Courtesy of the police)
The criminals who committed the crime, after the first round of stealing jewelry, then turned back to steal again. (Courtesy of the police)
The police are investigating at the scene.
The window of “Lukfook Jewelry” was smashed and the culprit reached in through the hole and stole the jewelry.
According to the video obtained by the reporter, at around 4 p.m. on the 26th, outside the “Lukfook Jewelry” store on the first floor of New World Mall on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, an African-American man wearing a mask and goggle mask smashed the window of the “Lukfook Jewelry” display, then reached inside the window and stole the jewelry, leaving several small boxes containing jewelry on the ground and a hammer suspected to be the one used by the assailant to smash the window.
The thief even packaged jewelry boxes also together from the window inside out, after the hand, he ran while the jewelry into a plastic bag, may be too hasty reason, the jewelry along with the box fell in front of the New World supermarket, he hurriedly bent down, pick up the jewelry on the ground, but not pick up the box.
But the thief was not satisfied at this point, he picked up the jewelry that fell on the ground, and then ran back to the window, and again put his hand through the small hole inside the window, and continued to steal jewelry, after the second Time he won, he jogged to escape east of Roosevelt Avenue.
According to the police, the total value of the stolen jewelry is about 32,000 yuan.
The reporter saw at the scene that the window of “Lukfook Jewelry” displayed necklaces, rings, bracelets, etc. The glass of the window was smashed through a hole about the size of a few fists, the box containing jewelry in the window was in disarray, and a hammer was left on the ground outside the window.
Police arrived at the scene after receiving the report, cordoned off the scene with a yellow cordon and forensics, the hammer on the ground with a paper bag to take away, while there are also several police officers in the jewelry store to investigate.
The female manager of Lukfook Jewelry was at the scene to cooperate with the police investigation, the reporter asked her if the jewelry was stolen, she was very angry and said “of course it was”; asked her how much was stolen, she said “to wait for the inventory”, and said she was “in a bad mood The video shows the perpetrators of the crime.
From the video, the perpetrator is a dark-skinned African-American, he is tall and wears a mask and goggles to cover his face, a hat on his head and gloves on his hands.
The police have not yet come, but some people are not allowed to approach the window, some people are talking about the window was smashed, they initially thought that the culprit’s hands do not reach in, I did not expect the criminals reached in and stole.”
The public is very worried about the robbery in broad daylight, a Chinese female customer named Sissi and her cousin came to “Lukfook Jewelry” in the afternoon to buy jewelry, encountered the police investigation at the scene, the jewelry store manager said to her sorry, temporarily can not go in to choose. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
In December 2019, three African-American criminals robbed five Apple phones and iPad prototypes from a T-Mobile cell phone store on Roosevelt Avenue; robberies of Gold and jewelry stores have also happened, but the criminals mostly dressed as customers, pretending to pick jewelry when they robbed gold chains and jewelry, like this case directly with a hammer to smash the window to rob jewelry The case is relatively rare. In June 2018, two Hispanic criminals pretended to pick a necklace at the “Zhaofeng Gold Shop” on Maine Street and stole 12 gold necklaces and a half-carat necklace pendant worth more than $30,000.
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