the police of Miami-Dade works to identify two thieves who in the early hours of this Monday stole almost a million dollars in clothes and money from Ernie & The Cata jewelry store and pawnshop owned by a Cuban-American.
The establishment that was the victim of a spectacular robbery is located at Coral Way and 72nd street in the southwest of the county, in Westchester.
In statements to the local press, the owner of the establishment specified that they entered through the roof, disconnected the alarm and fled with two heavy safes, one weighing more than 3 pounds and others weighing more than 700, which they removed through a pallet-type platform.
In one of the two surveillance videos, one of the two men, who entered through the bathroom, opened the door first and carefully observed the scene before committing the robbery.
after being between two and three hours inside the establishment, after 5 in the morning the subjects broke part of a wall, a door and a fence to take out with the safes. Immediately afterwards they put the merchandise in a van and escaped.
The unique robbery occurred in a central and Hispanic area of the county.
The owner of the establishment -who has decided to protect his identity for fear of thieves- says that after 5 in the morning he received an unexpected call from the alarm company he had contracted, telling him that the police had called them for a robbery on the premises.
The victim believes that the thieves knew what they were doing, because they even moved the security camera upwhich prevented a good part of his misdeed from being recorded.
A relative of the victim indicated that the criminals apparently broke from the inside out, according to how the debris was lying on the ground.
The media have not specified exactly how the thieves broke the wall, which is now temporarily protected with a large piece of wood.
“We don’t have insurance, things are hard”admitted in statements to Telemundo 51 the Cuban owner of the jewelry store, who, despite the bad times he is going through, prefers to be optimistic.
“In the end I am going to die, whether I have money or not. It bothered me a lot because I have worked very hard and I have lost practically everything, but it doesn’t matter, we keep going “he concluded.
In addition to collecting evidence and fingerprints at the jewelry store, police are also working with security cameras at the location and at other nearby businesses that could help identify the license plate of the vehicle used in the robbery and the two thieves, who they say the owner, would be about 30 years old.
