Summary: On
Saturday around 7:30 pm, five thieves
armed with sledgehammers broke into Reeds Jewelers, a jewelry store at
Wolfchase Galleria in Memphis, Tennessee.
This sent mall shoppers and employees running, as the thieves stole
dozens of Rolex watches.
Employees found cover at the back of
the store as the thieves stuffed around 65 Rolex watches into pillowcases. Each
watch cost about $11,000. The thieves never directly spoke to the employees,
they just took the watches and left.
Shoppers hid in the mall, which was
temporarily placed on lock down status. Shoppers
and employees believed that the thieves had guns and sledgehammers, but
officers reviewed the surveillance cameras and saw that they only had hammers. The
thieves fled from the scene and remain unfound.
Fortunately no one was injured during the robbery.
Analysis: Rolexes
are very expensive watches and they stole 65 of them. No telling what they have
done with those watches. They will probably sell them for the money. People are very greedy and will get money
however they can. I’m just glad no one was injured in this incident. I hope they are caught and brought to
justice. Stealing is a crime, and even
though they did use any weapons, I am sure the employees and shoppers were
terrified.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/19/us/tennessee-mall-jewelry-theft/index.html?hpt=us_c2
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