Posted on 08/20/2009 6:11:00 AM PDT by Ebenezer
Carrying out a heist that could have been scripted in Hollywood, two men scaled the JC Penney store near Covington under the cover of darkness early Sunday.
They cut a hole in the building's roof, descended into the store using ropes and, somewhere along the way, disabled the security system, paving the way for them to browse the darkened store and stuff plastic garbage bags with jewelry, clothing and other goods.
After an hour in the store, the burglars disappeared through a fire door, taking with them more than $1.5 million in goods and pulling off what authorities called the largest burglary in St. Tammany Parish history.
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In Obamaworld, $1.5 Million is not a lotta loot.
I just knew this guy was involved.
They mentioned jewelry, some stores have little jewelry departments with wedding sets and such. If they broke into that, then they could get a haul pretty quickly. Otherwise, at $15 an item, it would take a semi load to get that kind of money.
I want to know how they know they were only in there for an hour if the security system was shut down?
Yep, this story has holes in it you could drive a train through based upon what is in this article..
Don’t forget the Gold plate,and cubic zircona items.
The Penney store I worked over Christmas in Jewelry would lock all the diamond jewelry in safes overnight. Watches, silver and other jewelry was left in the cases. Many of the watches is around $300 plus retail. The gold and silver chains could easily cost $1000+ each.
I have an alibi.
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