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Thieves snatch $2M in jewels in NYC smash-and-grab heist

A crew of masked thieves pulled off a brazen smash-and-grab heist at a high-end Brooklyn jewelry store — making off with up to $2 million in gems in less than a minute.

Employees and shoppers were still inside Facets Jewelry in Park Slope around 5 p.m. Sunday when the three crooks stormed in, threatened to shoot a worker and began smashing display cases with hammers, police and witnesses said.

“I am shocked,” shop owner Irina Sulay told The Post on Monday. “Honestly, it’s very scary. I couldn’t even talk yesterday. I was hyperventilating, crying, sobbing, shaking.

“The whole thing lasted 38 seconds. They took two and a half full cases of diamond engagement rings, newer pieces we’ve designed in-house and pieces we’ve collected — art deco and Edwardian rings,” she said. “I want to say 100 rings.” Sulay said the stolen goods are valued at between $1 million and $2 million.

Thieves made off with up to $2 million in valuables from Facets Jewelry in Park Slope on Sunday.
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The owner said she was helping a customer when the three crooks showed up outside, with two lingering and the third ringing the buzzer to get into the store.

“I always like to give people the benefit of the doubt,” she explained. “It’s difficult. You try not to racially profile anyone and not be judgmental or discriminatory.

Once inside, she said, “the guy reaches into his pocket and pulls out a hammer — I didn’t even understand how a hammer could fit in there — and he says, ‘and this is how you use a hammer.’ He smashed three of our main displays.”

She said one of her employees reached for the phone, “but she’s shaking so she hands the phone to me and that’s when the guy in the door yells, ‘Don’t move! What the f–k are you going? I’m going to shoot you!’”

The three then took off with the merchandise and remain on the loose.

No one was physically hurt in the robbery — nor did the thieves actually display a gun.

But the incident nonetheless left workers and customers shaken, Sulay said.

“Just yesterday we were talking about the new year, that it was going to be a good year, and eight days later an insane situation has occurred,” she said.

“This is a woman-run business. We’re all mothers. There’s three women in the front.”

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Thieves made off with up to $2 million in goods from Facets Jewelry in Park Slope.
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Florida threesome has unhappy ending for man robbed of Rolex

You snooze, you lose.

Florida cops are searching for two young women who swiped a $25,000 Rolex after a male companion fell asleep during a late night rendezvous at his condo.

The victim told police he met his two provocatively clothed pals outside a rooftop bar in Fort Lauderdale around 3.a.m. Dec. 4, and got into a conversation.

The three exchanged phone numbers and agreed to meet later that morning.

Cops are searching for two women who stole a man’s Rolex during a late night rendezvous.
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According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, the man picked up the women an hour later and drove to his place for cocktails.

Though the man later fell asleep, his conniving companions remained on high alert.

When the man woke up, the pair were missing — along with his Submariner Blueface Rolex watch and a credit card.

The pair stole the timepiece after the man fell asleep.
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Police released surveillance footage of the timepiece temptresses from the bar, describing them as both in their mid-twenties with long black hair.

One of them sported a scorpion tattoo on her left thigh, officials added.

Cops are appealing for the public’s help in tracking down the time thieves.

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Lana Del Rey’s cameras, laptop containing new album stolen in smash-and-grab

Lana Del Rey pleaded with fans not to listen to leaked music after some of her prized items were stolen in a California smash-and-grab.

The New York native, 37, told fans that thieves took her backpack containing her computer, multiple hard drives, and a camcorder.

“A few months ago, I parked my car on Melrose Place — actually Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles — and I stepped away for a minute,” she said in a now-deleted Instagram Live video Wednesday.

“And the one time I left my backpack inside my car, someone broke all the windows and took it.”

The singer was in the process of writing a book for publishing giant Simon & Schuster but revealed the 200-page manuscript was among the items stolen, as well as a camcorder filled with irreplaceable family footage.

Lana Del Rey said her backpack — containing her computer and multiple hard drives — had been stolen.
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Lana Del Rey said her ninth studio album and a book she was in the process of writing were on the laptop.
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“I had to remotely wipe the computer that had my 200-page book for Simon and Schuster—which I didn’t have backed up on the cloud,” she said.

“And despite that, people are still able to remotely access my phone and leak our songs and personal photos. I loved the book that I lost with all of my heart and put a lot of passion into it.”

The “Ride” hitmaker, whose real name is Elizabeth Grant, said her ninth studio album was also loaded up on the stolen laptop, adding even more stress to the situation.

Lana Del Rey begged fans not to listen to any leaked music, saying if fans do hear anything new — it’s because “it’s not coming out yet.”
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The singer/songwriter, however, said she’s “confident” the album will eventually make it to an official release following last year’s album titled “Blue Banisters,” but admitted she has to “start over.”

“I just want to mention that despite all of this happening, I am confident in the record to come—despite so many safety factors at so many different levels. I really want to persist and make the best record I can,” she said.

She went on to urge fans to ignore anything that gets leaked, including new music and personal footage.

“Please don’t listen to the music if you hear it, because it’s not coming out yet,” she said.

“Obviously I won’t ever leave anything in the car again, even if it’s just for a moment. But we’ve had the same issues at the house, and it is a constant thing. And although I’m so grateful to be able to share all of the good stuff, I just also want to share that it has been a challenge.”

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San Francisco native Tom Wong moves after business robbed

A lifelong San Francisco resident said on “Fox & Friends First” Friday that crime is spiking and homelessness is rampant in the city, with “no clear end” in sight to the problems.

“My business was robbed. It was broken into and my equipment was robbed. My vehicle was constantly being broken into,” said Tom Wong, a private security firm owner who recently moved to the suburbs as crime has risen by 8.5% in the city since 2021.

“There’s open drug use. One of my client’s sites is right next to a safe injection site and the street is literally filled with drug dealers. There are probably about 15-20 drug dealers around the clock on the same block. And the residents are scared. My client, he could barely protect his home. And it’s just really, really bad right now.”

A shocking new survey revealed that almost half of San Francisco residents have been robbed in the last five years. The poll, conducted by a California NPR affiliate called KQED, revealed that nearly half of San Franciscans have been robbed in the past five years, while the city has not yet addressed the crime issue.

San Francisco officials tallied nearly 8,000 homeless people in February — the second highest number since 2005, according to a city count that happens every three years.

Furthermore, The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that a homeless encampment run by San Francisco cost the city $60,000 per year per tent. 

Tom Wong is a private security firm owner who recently moved to the suburbs after his business was robbed.
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Wong said it breaks his heart to see what has happened to the city where he grew up. 

“It was a home that I knew and loved. We got here because of the district attorney, we’re loose on crime, we have open drug use, we’re a sanctuary city, it just doesn’t work. Their policies don’t work. It’s a feel-good, it’s a slogan, but it doesn’t work. And we need to change that,” he told Carley Shimkus.

Businesses in one of San Francisco’s trendiest neighborhoods are threatening to withhold tax payments unless the woke politicians remove homeless people from the area and implement a stronger police presence.

The Castro Merchants Association, which represents 125 businesses, sent a letter to city officials earlier this month outlining three demands: 35 shelter beds for “mentally ill and substance-abusing individuals who have taken up residence in the Castro,” monthly metrics on services offered to the homeless in the Castro and a devised plan following a homeless person’s refusal for services.

Fox News’ Rachel Paik contributed to this report.

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