{"id":588113,"date":"2026-04-06T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588113\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:19:10","slug":"up-to-five-on-the-run-after-ramraiding-brisbane-cbd-hermes-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588113\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to five on the run after ramraiding Brisbane CBD Herm\u00e8s store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Up to five people are on the run after ramraiding a luxury store in Brisbane&#8217;s CBD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police were called to the Herm\u00e8s store on Edward Street at 3:06am after reports a stolen Mercedes SUV had been deliberately driven into the front of the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">North Brisbane District Duty Officer, Senior Sergeant Leonie Scott, said it appeared two people had gone inside the store and taken &#8220;as many items as they possibly could&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She said the offenders then loaded items from the store into another vehicle, before leaving in the second vehicle and a third and heading southbound over the Story Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Senior Sergeant Scott said police were &#8220;just short&#8221; of capturing one of the offenders onsite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She said the exact time the offenders were in the store was unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;It was a very quick entry and a quick exit,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Police were very quickly on scene and we were very close to apprehending one of them, however they managed to evade apprehension.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She said police had &#8220;three to five&#8221; persons of interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;[They were] all heavily clothed with face masks and coverings, possibly [wearing] gloves as well,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She said high-end items, including jewellery, handbags and clothing, had been stolen, but the value of the stolen goods was unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We&#8217;re appealing to the public if they see any high-end Herm\u00e8s items advertised or for sale on social media sites or selling platforms could they please ring crimestoppers,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police tape in front of a store with a smashed in wooden door. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b07a617909671f7ab0b00c11d358a6b5.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The Herm\u00e8s store in Brisbane&#8217;s CBD was ramraided early Monday morning.\u00a0 (ABC News: Arianna Levy)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Mercedes, stolen from a house in Coorparoo on April 1, was abandoned at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Senior Sergeant Scott said firefighters had inspected the building for structural damage on Monday morning and police had conducted forensics before the owners secured the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are urging anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage to come forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Herm\u00e8s is best known for its exclusive Birkin bags and sells numerous luxury items that cost tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Investigations are ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to five people are on the run after ramraiding a luxury store in Brisbane&#8217;s CBD.\u00a0 Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,58399,131091,170499,287486,44,10471,231264,58040],"class_list":["post-588113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-burglary","tag-hermes","tag-luxury-goods","tag-luxury-store","tag-news","tag-queensland-police-service","tag-ram-raid","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}