Glendale police officials are now on alert, providing information to jewelry store owners on how to properly prepare and react during store robberies. This comes right after a blatant robbery on November 15 wherein robbers smashed and grabbed jewelries in broad daylight. The robbery occurred the previous month at the Glendale Jewelry Mart on Brand Boulevard and involved a group of jewelry thieves forcefully entering the store at daytime. The thieves smashed the glass enclosures with hammers in hand and took an undisclosed amount of jewelry on individual escape vehicles and routes.
Detectives investigating the case have been looking into other jewelry store robberies within Los Angeles and Orange counties that bear resemblances in the circumstances surrounding each case. So far, they have found 47 similar smash-and-grab type jewelry store robberies happening since the first month of this year. Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz thus says about the cycle of jewelry robberies as begging to ask the question of when another store will be hit. Fortunately, police detectives have found a certain pattern amongst the robberies being studied.
Similar conditions were found to occur, namely having two to eight adolescents casually entering the stores in broad daylight, using hammers and several other tools to smash jewelry cases, stealing the merchandise and then running off to escape vehicles 30 seconds later. The vehicles similarly have been double parked around the store being robbed, waiting for the robbers to flee. The robbery suspects were captured on video wearing masks, hats, hooded sweaters and gloves.
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