Posted on 05/13/2015 11:44:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A team of burglars smashed a stolen SUV into Bloomingdale's at Stanford Shopping Center early Wednesday morning, police said, shattering the front glass doors of the high-end store and stealing a "large amount of jewelry." Palo Alto Police Agent Marianna Villaescusa said the suspects backed up a red SUV at 4:03 a.m. into the El Camino Real side of Bloomie's, according to surveillance footage reviewed at the scene. Three people, all wearing black-hooded sweatshirts, got out of the SUV and the driver waited for them outside, she said.
The trio used "some form of tool," perhaps hammers, Villaescusa said, to break the glass display cases and stole the jewelry before hopping into the getaway car. She said they were only inside for two minutes. No one got a good look at the suspects and their race and gender are unknown from the surveillance images.
The surveillance photos did pick up some car details, though. Villaescusa said the SUV’s license plate appears to match that of a red 1989 Jeep Cherokee that had been reported stolen on Tuesday at 5:36 p.m. from the 2200 block of Birch Street in Palo Alto. The license plate on the stolen Cherokee is 3VRN827.
Photo credit: Palo Alto police via Bloomingdale's surveillance
Bloomingdale's is still doing an investigation of what was stolen. And police are actively looking for the stolen SUV and the suspects.
"Smash-and-grab" burglaries have been occurring frequently throughout the Bay Area, including in Palo Alto in February, when burglars rammed a minivan into a photography shop and stole tens of thousands of dollars in merchandise.
There have been at least six other of these type of burglaries since May 2014 in the Bay Area, in San Francisco, Hayward and Berkeley.
I don’t think you can really tell.
Whoa... a scene I could have only imagined as fiction. This one will be seen again in a movie.
Where is Paul Blart when you need him?
I can tell that the taller of the two on the left...has no discernable hair on his head...trust me.
the image guy on the right has far less light...to bring up...and so hes a tad harder to see
Stealing the jewelry Americans won’t steal?
thas hay possibeality main...
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