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NYPD Seeks Trio in $3.2 Million Queens Jewelry Heist Disguised as Construction Workers

Police say the jeweler homeowner was likely targeted, prompting a public appeal for tips with newly released surveillance images.

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Surveillance video released by police shows the Oct. 16 robbery as two men on the crew walk up to the Briarwood home in the middle of the afternoon in Queens, NY.
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Overview

  • Police say the burglary occurred Oct. 16 around 2:20 p.m. at a home near 160th Street and 84th Drive in Jamaica Hills, Queens.
  • Two suspects in neon vests, hard hats and protective eyewear forced a rear door while a third waited in a blue Hyundai Elantra.
  • The crew removed a safe holding about $3.2 million in jewelry and fled east on 84th Drive; no injuries were reported.
  • The homeowner, a jeweler, said the unbolted safe contained mostly his daughter's jewelry, and investigators consider the case targeted.
  • Surveillance video and still images were released and police requested tips to NYPD Crime Stoppers; no arrests have been announced, and a 2024 sledgehammer robbery at the victim's store remains unsolved.