Jewel thieves make off with two safes
A jewelry shop on the Main – in the space where Simcha’s used to be, at Napoléon – was burgled this week while closed, and two very heavy safes were removed from the premises. The Journal says half a million bucks’ worth of goods were stolen.
walkerp 13:43 on 2020-03-27 Permalink
Total speculation, but this feels like organized crime. Was probably cased a long time ago, maybe by somebody who worked at the restaurant. But they would have needed more funding and muscle to do the job, especially move the safes and then get them open later. Just waiting for the right moment and boy did they get it. Really sad for that guy.
Douglas 17:19 on 2020-03-27 Permalink
I’m 100% sure he had those stones insured.
Douglas 17:27 on 2020-03-27 Permalink
Something smells fishy. Almost all the time, buildings next to each other have either brick walls / ciment blocks dividing the two buildings from top to bottom.
You can see on google street view the bricks of the Rosas building…. Those bricks are never sitting on just 2×4 wood planks as I saw in the video.
Someone knew there was an easy section with just gypse separating the two buildings. Robbers would never be able to destroy a hole big enough in the bricks / ciment blocks without it collapsing on them or waking up the entire area.
Very fishy. Owner could have done this.
Kate 19:03 on 2020-03-27 Permalink
Well, let’s not have aspersions cast on anyone. Police who investigate such things are not stupid, and insurance investigators are not stupid. If there’s been dirty work at the crossroads, it’ll be found out.
JP 00:43 on 2020-03-28 Permalink
I’m very much in agreement with Douglas here. You own a jewelry store and store your jewelry safe in a room that is barely secure from the building next to you. Inside job. Very clean. Worked in tandem with someone at the restaurant, maybe even the owner of the restaurant. They’ll split the “insurance profits.” That acting for CBC’s cameras was just awful. I would hope investigators would try to see through it, but if they can’t prove anything…