Oct. 29 (UPI) — A group of at least three men dressed as construction workers broke into a New York home and stole jewelry worth $3.2 million and a safe, the NYPD has announced.
The burglary happened at 2:20 p.m. EDT on Oct. 16, three days before thieves used similar tactics to steal the French crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre Museum in another daytime heist.
The men forcibly opened the back door of a home near 160th Street and 84th Drive in the Jamaica Hills neighborhood of Queens, the NYPD said in a statement from its Crimestoppers account on X, which seeks tips from the public in identifying suspects.
Authorities shared video footage of the men dressed like construction workers walking up to the home and then leaving some time later in a blue sedan that pulled into the driveway.
It was not immediately clear if anyone was home at the time of the burglary, but police said in a statement to NBC News that nobody was injured during the incident.
French prosecutors announced Sunday that arrests had been made in the Oct. 19 heist of jewels worth more than $100 million from the Louvre Museum. That investigation remains ongoing.
The Louvre Museum heist has drawn attention to other headline-making thefts in recent days.
The day after the Louvre Museum heist, historic coins were taken from a museum in the French town of Langres, the art news publication Urgent Matter reported.
