Thieves steal jewelry of $ 20 million from the LA store after tunnel by concrete

The Los Angeles Jewelry Store Love Jewels was robbed by about $ 20 million in jewelry during a wavy heist on Sunday, April 13.

About at. Fox 11. “They tunnel through several levels of concrete to the target site,” said LAPD officer David Cuellar.

The suspects went out through the same hole and fled in a Chevy truck. No alarms went off and no pictures were caught when the security cameras in the store were cut, said the shop owner’s son Per Fox 11.

“They could disable the cameras, disable the alarm and they could get into both safe,” the son told NBC 4. “They probably had five, six hours in here.”

On Monday, April 14, Love Jewels discovered that the two large cash registers with all the stores had been stolen.

Initially, it was estimated that goods of $ 10 million were stolen per cuellar. However, the shop owner told me Associated Press That the loss was about $ 20 million. The owner confirmed that they did not have insurance.

On Tuesday, April 15, the employees covered the hole in the wall with a metal plate. They also cleaned up and repaired the other damage around the store.

“They probably went in there every night, it slowly dug until there was enough room for them to enter,” the shop owner’s son told NBC 4.

“It took over 20 years for my father to gather all this and overnight everything was taken. Mostly just gold, chains, we specialize in gold, so chains and bracelets. And especially with gold today, it’s at the highest time. It’s a bad hit. I told them let us get out of the business,” said the shop owner’s son to Fox 11.

“In the gold industry, you reinvest everything so that all our money was what was in the safe,” the son told NBC 4.

“We are pennilless, literally penniless,” the store’s owner told NBC 4.

LAPD and FBI investigate the incident.

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Representatives of love jewels, LAPD and the FBI did not immediately respond to people’s request for more information on Tuesday.