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(Rapaport...July 21, 2006) During the course of the past 10 days a group of perhaps eight females (ages 20 to 40,) four men, and one child appear to have hit at least four jewelry retailers in the New York metro area.
Suspects in Jersey City, New Jersey, included eight females and three men, speaking in a language sales staff did not recognize. The group distracted sales staff on July 13 and purchased merchandise, but one female is suspected of crawling into the back of the store where she concealed cash and jewelry from the safe in her clothing before the group left the store.
In Brooklyn, New York, on July 12 it is believed that the same group hit a jewelry store while sales staff was showing merchandise to some of the female suspects. One suspect made her way into the back of the store and stole cash and jewelry from the safe.
One day earlier, on July 11, in Iselin, New Jersey, two jewelry store heists occurred 15 minutes apart. In both cases up to 12 people described as men, women, and one boy, arrived in a van as a group, entered the stores and distracted sales staff while one suspect would enter the rear of the store to access the safe.
Female suspects are described as wearing skirts and scarves, and the male suspects are described as wearing khaki pants and white shirts.
Jewelers in Queens, New York, were hit on July 12, and it is suspected that the same group may have been responsible, according to the Jewelers Security Alliance.
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