{"id":20509,"date":"2025-10-28T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20509\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:54:09","slug":"fake-construction-crew-steals-3-million-in-jewelry-from-queens-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20509\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake construction crew steals $3 million in jewelry from Queens home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are looking for a trio of burglars who made off with more than $3 million worth of jewelry from a Queens home, cops said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The crew pulled off the brazen heist by breaking in through the rear door of the home, near 160th St. and 84th Drive<\/a>\u00a0in Jamaica Hills, on Oct. 16 around 2:20 p.m. Once inside, they located and cracked a safe that contained jewelry estimated to be worth around $3.2 million, cops said.<\/p>\n

It was unclear if there was anyone in the home at the time of the incident, though cops said that there were no injuries reported<\/p>\n

Two of the burglars wore white hardhats, neon-colored construction jackets and protective eyewear and carried black backpacks.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

NYPD<\/p>\n

The getaway driver, who was operating a blue Hyundai Elantra, was dressed in a white hoodie sweater, black pants, gray sneakers, and black gloves. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

The driver of their getaway car, a blue Hyundai Elantra, sported a white hoodie sweatshirt, black pants, gray sneakers and black gloves.<\/p>\n

The burglars hopped into the compact sedan, taking off east on 84th Drive, cops said.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information in this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers<\/a> Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a trio of burglars who made off with more than $3 million worth of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-20509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-crime","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-queens-headlines","21":"tag-queens-news","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}