Today's stupid criminals are from Denver, Colorado
From
CBS/Denver:
�Clown� Thieves Get Away With Mostly Worthless Jewelry
Denver police are looking for a pair of violent thieves who were dressed up like clowns when they held up a jewelry store at gunpoint on Wednesday.
The crime happened in the morning at Sonny�s Rocks on Colorado Boulevard, and it has an unusual twist in that the most of what was taken isn�t very valuable and can easily be replaced.
Surveillance video obtained by CBS4 shows the robbers roughing up employees and even pointing a gun at one of the store�s owners.
The robbery lasted for about 15 minutes, and owner Mark Allen said one of the men �had his gun pointed to me, at one point at my head, at my neck and at my back.�
And the jewelry?
Allen and Nedler told CBS4 that because the price of the precious metals featured in their jewelry has gone up significantly, what customers see in their store � and in most jewelry stores � is usually an inexpensive sample of what is ordered from the designer. The owners said that what the robbers stole is basically worthless outside the store.
That is done a lot up here with the large stores -- they will have several thousand different sample from different designers so rather than have that much precious inventory sitting on the books, they use maquettes and then order the finished piece when the customer chooses it.
Posted by DaveH at August 25, 2011 10:51 AM