NEW YORK — Police are searching for two women and a man who they say stole nearly half a million dollars worth of diamond rings in a brazen midday heist at a midtown Manhattan jewelry store earlier this month, police said. authorities.
Two of the suspects, the man and one of the women, acted as lookouts when a 33-year-old clerk entered the back of the jewelry store on West 47th Street around 3 p.m. on April 7, officials told The Associated Press. share surveillance Wednesday night.
Once she was out of sight, the second woman went behind the counter as her accomplices kept watch and stuffed 112 white and yellow gold diamond rings into a bag. The value of the merchandise was about $450,000, police said.
The trio of thieves then left the store with the stolen merchandise estimated at $450,000 and took an F train southbound at the Rockefeller Center subway station, authorities said. Crime Stoppers released video footage of the suspects (above).
Police ask anyone with information about the attack to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). .
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