A mall on Florida\u2019s Treasure Coast was targeted in an \u201celaborate rooftop heist,\u201d but their target was not what you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n
The thieves ignored the mall\u2019s jewelry stores and went after shoes \u2013 lots and lots of shoes.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot quite the Crown Jewels \u2014 but it\u2019s clear these sneaker thieves put the same time and effort into their crime,\u201d the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office said, referencing a recent heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris.<\/p>\n
\u201cThieves cut their way through the concrete roof of the Treasure Coast Mall, dropping into the Champs Sporting Goods store and stealing hundreds of pairs of Nike shoes. The stolen merchandise was bagged, tagged, thrown off the roof, and loaded into a getaway vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mall is in Jensen Beach and the theft happened between midnight Monday, Oct. 20, and 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s suspected between 300 and 400 pairs of shoes were taken, mostly Nike and New Balance shoes that are \u201chigh end\u201d and expensive, the sheriff\u2019s office said at a press conference posted on YouTube by WPEC.<\/p>\n
Around 100 pairs were found abandoned on the roof, perhaps due to the thieves being frightened away, Sheriff John Budensiek said at the news conference.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s suspected more than one person was involved, and it remains unclear how they got onto the roof, officials said.<\/p>\n
No alarm sounded during the burglary, due to the system being focused on intrusions via doors, officials said.<\/p>\n
However, a motion sensor camera was tripped, and it shows a couple of \u201ccompletely covered up\u201d people moving around the store, Budensiek said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are not just the kids from down the road doing a fly-by-night burglary. These are organized crime criminals that are probably traveling criminals that made their way to Martin County (and) got off with a sizable amount of product,\u201d Budensiek said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s estimated the stolen shoes were valued in excess of $40,000, officials said.<\/p>\n
Jensen Beach is about as 115-mile drive north from Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mall on Florida\u2019s Treasure Coast was targeted in an \u201celaborate rooftop heist,\u201d but their target was not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,16886,29,16887,16888,15212],"class_list":["post-21428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-mall","tag-florida-news","tag-jensen-beach","tag-jewelry-stores","tag-nike-shoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428","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=21428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}