Two men who posed as NYPD officers and robbed a New York City jewelry store in a brazen daytime heist have been arrested.
The incident occurred on the afternoon of June 6 when two men, 59-year-old Ismael Igartua from Queens and 59-year-old Jose Rodriguez from the Bronx, allegedly entered a jewelry store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City dressed as NYPD officers and identified themselves as cops to the owner of the store.
“Igartua and Rodriguez asked for permission to enter the jewelry store and requested to examine the store owner’s properly permitted firearm, claiming that, due to the recent looting of commercial establishments in New York, firearms were at risk of being stolen,” according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York.
The jewelry store owner proceeded to hand over his firearm for the alleged inspection when the suspects, who were armed with two firearms of their own, reportedly restrained and tied up the store owner, and subsequently stole his firearm along with a number of pieces of jewelry valued at a total of over $150,000.
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