{"id":87605,"date":"2025-08-16T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87605\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:35:06","slug":"thieves-steal-2-million-in-jewelry-from-seattle-store-in-just-90-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87605\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves steal $2 million in jewelry from Seattle store in just 90 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of thieves stole millions of dollars of merchandise from a family-owned jewelry store in a bold daylight robbery in Seattle that took only 90 seconds, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/spdblotter.seattle.gov\/2025\/08\/14\/police-investigating-two-million-dollar-smash-and-grab-robbery-of-jewelry-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Police Department said<\/a> it responded to reports of a robbery at Menashe and Sons Jeweler in West Seattle around noon on August 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four masked suspects allegedly used hammers to smash a locked front glass door, then destroyed six display cases, police said. The incident was caught on surveillance cameras inside the store,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiro7.com\/news\/local\/1-million-jewelry-stolen-west-seattle-store-using-bear-spray-hammers\/AQBKNOHPAZATZERJGQYANTQR4A\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS affiliate KIRO<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspects were armed with a Taser and bear spray. The weapons were pointed at store employees while the robbery occurred. No injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bret Gibson, an employee at a gym across the street from the shop, told KIRO that the robbery could be heard inside his workplace. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could still hear like a lot of breaking glass and banging around and stuff, so they were in there around noon still robbing the store while everyone was on the phone calling the cops,&#8221; Gibson told KIRO.<\/p>\n<p>After the rapid-fire robbery, the suspects fled in a getaway car, police said. A search of the area yielded no results. Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to contact the Seattle Police Department at its Violent Crimes Tip Line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Josh Menashe, the vice president of the store, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/seattle-jewelry-robbery-video-fda53d4dfd1012c6d84f343b856085ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the Associated Press<\/a> that the store will &#8220;be closed for a while.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re pretty shook up as a staff,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Menashe told the Associated Press that workers cleaned up the broken glass from the incident and were working on a full inventory of the stolen goods. One glass case held between $700,000 and $800,000 in Rolex luxury watches, while another held an emerald necklace valued at $125,000, the Seattle police said. The case with the necklace also held a platinum diamond. Two other display cases &#8220;contained a large amount of gold jewelry.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kerry-breen\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry  Breen<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University&#8217;s Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News&#8217; TODAY Digital. 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