Pleasanton jewelry theft fits pattern
By Sophia Kazmi/Knight Ridder
San Jose Mercury News
Two men who used a sledgehammer in burglarizing a jewelry store at Pleasanton’s Stoneridge Mall on Monday morning may be involved in a string of jewelry heists in Northern California, police said Tuesday.
Two men wearing black puffy parkas and dark jeans walked into the Zales jewelry store about 10:30 a.m. Monday and donned gloves. One of them, using a yellow sledgehammer, smashed a jewelry case. The pair took an estimated $200,000 in engagement rings, said Pleasanton police detective Pat Walsh.
There have been similar heists in Burlingame, Davis, San Francisco and Stockton.
The thieves fled in a maroon, late 1990s GMC Yukon with plates similar to CALI or CARL. Police ask anyone with information about the robberies to call Pleasanton police at (925) 931-5100.
