A brazen shoplifter posing as a customer snagged nearly $100,000 worth of jewelry from a Brooklyn store earlier this month, police said Tuesday.
The shameless female thief walked into Aqua Jewels by Monica on East 4th Street near Avenue P in Gravesend while it was open around 1 p.m. on Feb 8, the NYPD said.
She grabbed a handful of bracelets, necklaces, and earrings from a display case — worth $94,000 in total — before making a beeline for the exit, cops said.
She then fled south on East 4th Street in a black minivan, police said.
No threats were made and no injuries were reported during the broad-daylight ordeal, police said.
The still-at-large suspect was last seen wearing a black dress, black jacket, and a black hat, according to the NYPD.
In one photo, she is bizarrely shown sitting inside the store with her eyes closed and her hands near her chest.
The heist comes just days after two thieves snatched tens of thousands in jewelry from a different luxury store in Hudson Yards.
Anyone with information on the woman’s whereabouts 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 X @NYPDTips.
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