New York Police have released video footage of three robbers they said jumped from one Manhattan building to another to loot over $500,000 in jewellery from a store on Christmas Day
Police are on hunting for the trio who robbed the Ultra Diamonds jewellery store in a large commercial shopping district on 6th Avenue Saturday afternoon.
The men got into the closed store by initially breaking into a nail salon on the first floor of an adjacent building, police said.
From there, the robbers climbed onto the rooftop and jumped across to the building of shops that housed the jewellery store.
Police believe the men might have then used a sledgehammer to knock a hole into the outside wall of the jewellery store, and snaked themselves inside.
Video footage shows the masked men rapidly ransacking several glass displays of jewels and dumping the contents into black bags. Police said the men escaped back through the hole they smashed into the wall.
A spokeswoman for the national jewellery retailer praised the police's work.
"We don't have any additional information at this time but I know the New York Police Department has this under investigation," said Kris Land, Ultra Diamond's chief marketing officer.
"We're very pleased with how many people they've put on the case and how they're really digging into this."
Jumping jewel thieves get away with loot
New York Police have released video footage of three robbers they said jumped from one Manhattan building to another to loot over $500,000 in jewellery from a store on Christmas Day
Police are on hunting for the trio who robbed the Ultra Diamonds jewellery store in a large commercial shopping district on 6th Avenue Saturday afternoon.
The men got into the closed store by initially breaking into a nail salon on the first floor of an adjacent building, police said.
From there, the robbers climbed onto the rooftop and jumped across to the building of shops that housed the jewellery store.
Police believe the men might have then used a sledgehammer to knock a hole into the outside wall of the jewellery store, and snaked themselves inside.
Video footage shows the masked men rapidly ransacking several glass displays of jewels and dumping the contents into black bags. Police said the men escaped back through the hole they smashed into the wall.
A spokeswoman for the national jewellery retailer praised the police's work.
"We don't have any additional information at this time but I know the New York Police Department has this under investigation," said Kris Land, Ultra Diamond's chief marketing officer.
"We're very pleased with how many people they've put on the case and how they're really digging into this."
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