Smooth $350,000 jewelry heist in Los Altos, California

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Smooth $350,000 jewelry heist in Los Altos, California

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From the way the $350,000 jewelry heist in downtown Los Altos transpired, it seems as though the thieves must have gotten a script from an intricate crime novel or a Hollywood movie.

Sometime before 4:38 a.m. Sunday, a team of suspects pried open the door of Hordin’s Bookkeeping & Income Tax Service and cut through a portion of a wall separating the tax accountant’s office and Harold’s Jewelry, 164 Main St.

The hole lined up exactly with the jeweler’s safe.

Police Sgt. John Korges said the thieves used commercial metal cutters to peel open the safe and make off with at least $350,000 worth of loose stones, jewelry waiting for repair and display pieces. Cops showed up 14 minutes later only to find an empty jewelry store and no suspects.

Korges got a buzz at home at 5 a.m. alerting him that something major had gone down.

“This was a big deal,” Korges said. “This level of sophistication is rarely seen in Santa Clara County. The labor and the time it took to evaluate the territory and make plans, this was very involved.”

This was the third jewelry store burglary on Main Street since August, and police are open to the idea that they may be related. A jewelry store in Los Gatos was also robbed on Halloween. But police say the modus operandi of that “smash and grab” robbery doesn’t appear to be connected to the Los Altos burglary because the Los Gatos store was robbed in broad daylight and occurred when the owner was working in the store.

The burglars had moved a copy machine to give them room to “hack away at the wall. It looks like they took their time cutting,” Hordin said, adding that he doesn’t have an alarm, so the burglars could have been working for a long time with no one knowing.

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