A burglary at a jewelry store located at 286A East 204th Street in Norwood in the early hours of Wednesday, Feb. 21, resulted in the theft of $1,100 worth of property, police said.

 

Two officers were seen guarding the crime scene later on Wednesday morning. Police said the break in took place at around 5.05 a.m. They reported no injuries and no description of a suspect(s) was immediately available.

The front glass door of the store was seen smashed in with glass remnants scattered on the sidewalk, and the area was cordoned off with police tape.

 

We spoke to the business owner of the Wine & Liquor store, located next door to the affected business, who had just arrived at work and said he had called the affected business owner and he had not picked up. However, he said police officers told him later that the impacted jewelry store business owner had been seen in the area on Wednesday morning and was unharmed.

The owner of the liquor store described his business neighbor as being around 50 years old and said he was Asian, like him. Other neighboring business owners did not know anything about what had happened. One resident later commented that there didn’t appear to be much inventory in the store and that it was not always open every day.

 

A construction worker chatting with a colleague on the other side of the street (where Foodtown is located) said he didn’t know what happened but added, “The people, they are crazy.” He added that he often saw people fighting in the street especially around Decatur Avenue and East 204th Street.

We spoke to other local employees in the neighborhood but nobody had seen what happened.

 

As reported, a young female store owner at nearby Bainbridge Avenue, also in Norwood, pleaded with three masked gunmen not to harm her grandmother or other family members as they held a gun to the back of her boyfriend’s head, while pulling the backroom contents of the store asunder, searching for cash during a store robbery on Oct. 16, 2023.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

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