Jewelry Store Owner Says Suspects Stole 300K Worth of Merchandise

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Two equipped suspects burglarized a South Sacramento Jewelry store Friday afternoon. The store proprietor tells CBS13 that the suspects made disconnected with astir $300,000 successful merchandise.

The owner, not comfy sharing the sanction of the store oregon showing his face, fearing for his information and acrophobic the suspects whitethorn travel back.

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The brazen burglary happened successful wide daylight.

Police tin beryllium heard implicit the vigor scanner saying, “They were equipped with guns and took 300 expansive from the business. The suspects are 2 antheral achromatic adults.”

In a video obtained by CBS13, 2 hooded men successful masks tin beryllium seen entering a South Sacramento Jewelry store connected Florin road.

First, the suspects look astir the store for a infinitesimal past they each propulsion a weapon connected the owner, backing him and his woman into a country earlier cleaning retired the jewelry cases.

The suspects yet permission – with everything.

“That’s 2-300K worthy of merchandise,” says Mohammad Mallick, who owns a store adjacent and says a transgression similar this could beryllium devastating for the tiny business.

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“Basically you spell retired of concern erstwhile things similar this happen,” says Mallick.

The transgression was bittersweet but not astonishing to neighbors.

“It’s happened present before,” says Janine Acebedo who works successful a cellphone store each alone.

“This doorway was wholly breached there’s inactive solid connected the floor. A week anterior to that they shattered this window,” says Acebedo.

The jewelry store proprietor asked our CBS13 unit to play the surveillance video successful hopes that idiosyncratic recognizes the suspects and that they are brought to justice.

The proprietor and his woman archer CBS13 they judge 1 of the suspects was wrong the jewelry store earlier successful the time and past returned to rob them.

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CBS13 has made respective attempts to interaction the Sacramento County Sherriff’s Office regarding further accusation astir the transgression and the suspects. We did not perceive back.

Laura Haefeli