Pleasanton Zales Store Blitzed By Smash-And-Grab Crew
As we Flashed to our cadre of loyal subscribers on May 4, it appears one of those mobile crews of smash-and-grab thieves chose the Zales Jewelers store at the Stoneridge Shopping Center – attacking the business with hammers, axes and pepper spray.
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The four-man crew struck at about 11:30 a.m. that Monday, hammering open at least two display cases and keeping employees at bay with chemical agents.
A dollar estimate of goods taken – and what precisely was targeted by the thieves – has not been released either by police or the victim business.
The blitz-style robbery, in which masked thieves swarm into a store, intimidate customers and employees and smash their way into display cases containing jewelry or other high value items, has become a fairly common occurrence in the Bay Area in recent years.
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That all looks horrible. Its the wild west out there on the roads. My husband blames video games..but who knows..maybe we just don’t care enough about others anymore..
Sorry my comment was meant for yesterday’s news re: the car accident on hwy 24.
Howdy, Neighbor (yes, we’ve been waiting to say that!) but we can’t re-direct your comment.
Tell you what, if you want to post a new comment on the appropriate story we’ll delete your secondary one so it’ll be clean…
I was at Stoneridge Mall over the weekend and somebody really needs to stick a fork in that place. Well on it’s way to becoming Sunvalley 2.0
Hope the robbers got mom somethin’ nice. She must be so proud.
Just going to add that I agree with the above comment about ITWWOT.
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I guess they’ve gotten really good at doing this by succeding many times at Sun Valley Mall in Concord. Now they’ve decided to branch out and go to a better mall like Pleasanton.
These crews just keep coming back. I wonder what could keep this from happening again? Longer incarceration maybe?