Multiple people wearing masks and brandishing handguns ran into Heller Jewelers at the City Center Bishop Ranch shopping mall at 6000 Bollinger Canyon Road at around 1:50 p.m. Footage from the scene shows the robbers using tools, including a hammer, a tire iron and a pick axe, to smash glass countertops so they could pull out merchandise in a "takeover-style armed robbery," according to police.
According to Gothamist, a woman living in the Cypress Hill public housing complex in Brooklyn was relieved of more than $200,000 worth of money and jewelry after two men posed as NYCHA employees and entered her home at gunpoint to commit the robbery on Aug. 11. How they knew this particular person was balling while living in the projects is anyone's guess, but they definitely hit a sweet lick as they made off with $7,000 in cash and roughly $200,000 in jewelry.
Randolph police responded to the AI Prime gas station at 304 Union St. for a report of an armed robbery on Saturday around 8:15 p.m., the department said. The suspect, later identified as McDonald, was reported to have been wearing a black mask and was carrying a semiautomatic handgun. He fled on foot, according to police.
An 18-year-old man and a teenage boy have been arrested in connection with an alleged armed robbery of three people, including two minors, moments after a middle school promotion event in Stockton.
