Gone in 90 seconds: robbers steal US$2 million in jewellery from Seattle store
Video from the West Seattle store's surveillance cameras shows four masked suspects shattering the locked glass front door with hammers and then ransacking six display cases on Thursday.
One display held around US$750,000 worth of Rolex watches, police said in a statement, and another had an emerald necklace valued at US$125,000.
A masked suspect threatened workers with bear spray and a taser, police said, but no one was injured.
'We're pretty shook up as a staff,' Josh Menashe, vice-president of the family-owned store, said by phone on Friday. 'We're gonna be closed for a while.'
Menashe said workers finished cleaning up the broken glass and were working on a full inventory of the losses.
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