‘I went blind and heard the explosions of the display cases’: they rob jewelry with pepper spray in California, it was the owner’s birthday and thieves took merchandise worth more than $ 500,000

The worst of her birthdays were taken by thieves to a jewelry store in Pasadena, California.

According to the media, the man was surprised by the criminals, who mocked him with pepper spray in an attempt to immobilize him and, of course, to frighten him even more.

“As soon as I opened the door of the business, there was pepper spray in my throat and I went blind,” Samuel Babikian, the jeweler attacked, told Univisión.

Babikian was “ambushed” in this way when he walked to the door with a client, Telemundo 52 reported.

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How was the jewelry store robbery?

The violent robbery took place around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 29, 2023.

The Jewels on Lake jewelry store is located in the 400 block of Lake Avenue, the news outlet said.

“I heard the explosions of the display cases, how they took everything away”he told Univision.

What was stolen amounts to more than half a million dollars, they estimate.

A police sergeant from Pasadena, California, told Univisión “that a robbery of this magnitude is not that common and it could be the biggest in the city.”

They had hammers, they smashed the boxes, they took what they could and ran out the door.

Mónica Cuéllar, Pasadena Police Lieutenant at Telemundo

The Univisión journalist described that the pepper spray also hit two other people in the property.

“As I could, I blindly approached the panic button,” the jeweler said, notifying authorities of the offence.

Babikian, of Lebanese descent, told Telemundo 52 that he has been a jeweler since he was 13.

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His business, which he has run for 20 years, was robbed in about three minutes. It was three thieves, Telemundo 52 added.

In the hands of the authorities, the video of the attack on the jewelry store is in order to locate those responsible.

“I don’t know what to do to go to the store and what, because most of the jewelry is gone,” Babikian complained the same Tuesday. (JO)

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