Sandy
08-26-2019, 07:59 PM
This stinks of an insurance scam. It's just too obvious.
The footage, taken Sunday from inside Avianne & Co. in Midtown Manhattan’s Diamond District, shows one of the suspects sitting at a table and looking directly at a camera before pulling out a pistol. Another part of the video shows a man who appears to be an employee walking around the store’s showroom with his hands up.
Police told the New York Post that the men posed as customers around noon Sunday before brandishing handguns and restraining four of the store’s workers with zip ties. They then went through the shop’s safe and display cases, placing a number of jewelry pieces into a duffel bag, the newspaper added.
Avianne & Co., on its Facebook page, describes itself as the “leading Custom Diamond Jewelers in Hip Hop and Pop Culture” and lists Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne among its exclusive clients.
In 2018, rapper Lil Pump bought five diamond-encrusted watches from the store valued at up to $200,000 each, the New York Post reported.
And Sunday’s heist apparently isn’t the first time Avianne & Co. has been targeted.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-footage-in-jewelry-store-heist
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The footage, taken Sunday from inside Avianne & Co. in Midtown Manhattan’s Diamond District, shows one of the suspects sitting at a table and looking directly at a camera before pulling out a pistol. Another part of the video shows a man who appears to be an employee walking around the store’s showroom with his hands up.
Police told the New York Post that the men posed as customers around noon Sunday before brandishing handguns and restraining four of the store’s workers with zip ties. They then went through the shop’s safe and display cases, placing a number of jewelry pieces into a duffel bag, the newspaper added.
Avianne & Co., on its Facebook page, describes itself as the “leading Custom Diamond Jewelers in Hip Hop and Pop Culture” and lists Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne among its exclusive clients.
In 2018, rapper Lil Pump bought five diamond-encrusted watches from the store valued at up to $200,000 each, the New York Post reported.
And Sunday’s heist apparently isn’t the first time Avianne & Co. has been targeted.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-footage-in-jewelry-store-heist
8625