ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. \u2014 A St. Augustine coin shop owner said surveillance cameras captured a late-night attempt to break into his business, raising concerns about security as the value of gold and silver continues to rise.<\/p>\n
Investigators say what could have been a major heist happened late Friday night, when two to three suspects were caught on camera using power tools in an effort to access a safe at Silver Dollar City.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video from inside a St. Augustine plaza captured the sound of sawing as the suspects worked for more than three hours. Silver Dollar City co-owner Caleb Jarrard described what can be heard in the footage.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can hear clearly the saw cutting off the back door of the nail salon, they go into it. You can hear the loud banging noises of them using you know their equipment,\u201d Jarrard said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n According to Jarrard, the suspects cut through the lock of a neighboring nail salon around 10:40 Friday night. At least one person reportedly arrived at the nail salon on a moped before the group attempted to breach the wall directly behind the coin shop\u2019s primary safe.<\/p>\n After tearing through drywall, the suspects encountered reinforced concrete, which ultimately stopped them.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really weren\u2019t expecting it to happen until it did,\u201d Jarrard said.<\/p>\n Surveillance video also captured a moment when the suspects appeared to notice the cameras inside the business.<\/p>\n Jarrard says the question \u201cis that a camera\u201d was raised by two people inside the building, alerting others to the presence of security equipment. All of the suspects fled the scene just before 2 a.m.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cWith the price of gold and silver rising so high, I think they knew exactly what they were after,\u201d Jarrard said.<\/p>\n The St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the attempted burglary. Jarrard says the incident has already forced him to make changes.<\/p>\n \u201cNow that it has happened, we\u2019ve upgraded a lot of security and a lot of things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n The owner of the nail salon says the attempted break-in caused thousands of dollars in damage. Anyone who recognizes individuals seen in the surveillance video is asked to contact the St. John\u2019s County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. \u2014 A St. Augustine coin shop owner said surveillance cameras captured a late-night attempt to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,969,116,118,117,634,9476,9475,68258,9285],"class_list":["post-140442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local","tag-nicholas","tag-nicholas_brooks","tag-st-_jones_county_sheriffs_office","tag-yona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}