Atlanta police are investigating an early morning smash-and-grab burglary at a Buckhead jewelry store that was robbed of $5 million in merchandise late last year.
The thieves shattered a front window of Elif Fine Jewelry on Paces Ferry Place about 1 a.m. Tuesday, then smashed several glass display cases inside the store.
"The surveillance cameras showed a light-colored, four-door vehicle drive up and park on the street in front of the business," Atlanta police Sgt. Greg Lyon told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Two men, wearing masks and gloves, got out of the car, and one "used a tire tool to break the front window, allowing both suspects to enter the business," Lyon said in an email. "Once inside, the two suspects broke several of the glass jewelry cases and then exited through the broken window with stolen merchandise."
He said about $5,000 in merchandise was stolen.
On Nov. 7, robbers wearing ski masks used hammers to break the display cases in a $5 million jewelry robbery that Lyon called "very bold."
One of the suspects in that robbery threatened to shoot store employees who didn't follow their commands to get face down in a back room.
"You get the impression," Lyon told Channel 2 Action News last year, "that these suspects knew what they were doing."
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