GUNMEN FLEE WITH JEWELRY.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer Two San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. stores have been hit by armed jewel robbers in the past two days in unrelated crimes, police said Wednesday. A gunman fired into the ceiling of the J.C. Penney store at Northridge Fashion Center Northridge Fashion Center is a large shopping mall located in Northridge, California. It opened in 1971. It was severely damaged during the Northridge Earthquake in 1994, but renovated extensively in 1995 and 1998. on Wednesday, sending shoppers into a panic before he fled with about a dozen rings valued at $20,000, said Lt. Bob Normandy of the LAPD's Devonshire Division. A group of four men, including two well-dressed gunmen, stormed Van's Jewelry on Chatsworth Street on Tuesday and escaped with $100,000 in jewelry. Police said the holdup Tuesday involved a ring of experienced robbers, compared to the bungled bun·gle v. bun·gled, bun·gling, bun·gles v.intr. To work or act ineptly or inefficiently. v.tr. To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch. n. crime Wednesday, and concluded that the two crimes were unrelated. The Wednesday robbery began at 10:35 a.m. when a man posing as a customer entered the J.C. Penney store and asked the female clerk at the counter for an engagement ring. ``He takes a firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. , demands jewelry - but she was too slow for him, he takes his firearm and fires one round into the ceiling, to hurry her up,'' said Normandy. The shots caused a panic and the gunman decided to flee with the three rings For the video game developer see Three Rings Design. In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Three Rings of the Elves of Eregion are fictional magical artifacts. They are three of twenty Rings of Power. , dropping one outside, Normandy said. Chased by an unarmed security guard, the man turned and aimed a small-caliber handgun, forcing the plainclothes plain·clothes or plain-clothes adj. Wearing civilian clothes while on duty to avoid being identified as police or security: a plainclothes detective. security officer to give up the chase near the parking structure. Tuesday's crime occurred about 10:40 a.m. at Van's Jewelers in the 17700 block of Chatsworth, said Detective Ed Heissel. Four people were involved, two casually dressed who acted as lookouts and two dressed in business suits who posed as customers, Heissel said. ``The men pretended to ask for help, they had a problem with a watch they brought in,'' Heissel said. |
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