Thieves snatch $2M in jewelry from Four Seasons display case

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By JAMIE SCHRAM, KEVIN FASICK and M.L. NESTEL
Last Updated: 2:37 PM, February 17, 2013

Three slick thieves smashed and grabbed $2 million in bling from a Four Seasons display case just feet from the Midtown hotel’s front desk yesterday — and made a clean getaway, The Post has learned.

The crooks snatched three watches, a necklace, earrings, rings, cuff links and pendants from the Jacob & Co. case at around 2 a.m. and fled in a waiting car on East 57th Street, sources said.

“It was quick. They hit us, smash and grab, gone,” a security worker said. “We certainly didn’t expect to get hit there.”

With an accomplice waiting in the car, the other two men waltzed into the famed hotel and ascended two flights of stairs to get to the ornate lobby surrounded by a dozen windowed cases from an assortment of high-end retailers.

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. I do not condone theft

but ostentatious displays of wealth - coupled with management too cheap to keep security cameras operating - are an open invitation to events like this.

[GeorgeGist]

2. What a HOOT.

High priced security like that gotta cost $10-15 an hr.

[msongs]

3. it was Sherry and Dawn that did it nt

[hunter]

4. I always figured the stuff in displays like that was fake...

...like the plastic food in restaurant displays.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_food

Jewelery stores I've seen always lock up the good stuff in a safe before everyone goes home for the day.

[DollarBillHines]

5. We were there a few weeeks ago

Walking thru the lobby, I turned to GF and mentioned something about having a length of pipe...

[JI7]

6. i wonder why those items were worth 2 million