|||--- Cartier Store On Bloor West Robbed This Afternoon By 3 Masked Men ---|||

[cquan05]

[h1]High-End T.O. Jewellery Store Robbed By Masked Trio[/h1]
Wednesday January 7, 2009

CityNews.ca Staff

Police blocked off a section of Bloor near Bay Wednesday afternoon following the brazen robbery of a high-end jewellery store.

There are witness accounts of three masked suspects in the vicinity of the Cartier store at St. Thomas Street across from the Windsor Arms Hotel.

Police confirmed as many men entered the store around 3pm, each armed and with their faces covered. In what some have suggested looked like a scene from a Hollywood film, they ordered all staff and patrons to the ground before taking hammers to the display cases and fleeing with a still-unspecified quantity of jewels.

Nobody was injured, but officers showed up seconds too late and the thieves got away - for now.

A shotgun was also recovered not far from the scene, police said, though it hasn't been officially linked to the robbery.

Call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS if you can help in the investigation.

 

[apollo xxxiii]

Damn shame.

 

[mkc1983]

I read on CP24 that they got away on the TTC.

 

[kobetafr]

wow just saw this on CP24... there is a possibility they left on the TTC...

good thing no one was injured.. they were saying that they're organized or they suspect that the robbers were "professionals" because they stolemost of the low-end jewellery and never touched the high-end stuff.

 

[DYNAMICS]

Originally Posted by mkc1983

I read on CP24 that they got away on the TTC.

Serious?

 

[11wordisbond]

Originally Posted by Kobetafr

they were saying that they're organized or they suspect that the robbers were "professionals" because they stole most of the low-end jewellery and never touched the high-end stuff.

Sorry, if they were pros why would they leave the more expenisve stuff?

 

[cquan05]

Originally Posted by 11wordisbond

Originally Posted by Kobetafr

they were saying that they're organized or they suspect that the robbers were "professionals" because they stole most of the low-end jewellery and never touched the high-end stuff.

Sorry, if they were pros why would they leave the more expenisve stuff?

Harder to get rid of the more expensive stuff than it is to sell the lower-end stuff.....

 

[11wordisbond]

True, you sound like a pro lol.