Garden Grove : Armed Robbers in Van Hold Up Jewelry Store
Armed robbers took an unknown amount of jewelry Saturday from Rupert’s Diamond Palace in the 9800 block of Chapman Avenue in Garden Grove and fired a single shot when a gun apparently went off by accident, police said.
No one was injured as the “four or five” suspects fled in a brown Dodge van, Garden Grove Police Lt. John Urbanowski said.
At 4:05 p.m. the suspects entered the jewelry store, smashed cases and took an undetermined amount of jewelry, he said. As they climbed into a waiting van, a gun carried by one of the suspects discharged accidentally, witnesses told police.
The van fled northbound on the San Diego Freeway and was last seen by a Los Alamitos police officer traveling the opposite direction in the north Long Beach area, Urbanowski said.
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