To cover their tracks, they disabled some cameras and destroyed the DVR system, then shattered numerous display cases with a claw hammer, the sources said. Two of the crooks then possibly used a sledgehammer to smash a hole in the wall and crawled inside, sources said. They crossed the roof to an adjacent building, which houses Burlington Coat Factory and Ultra Diamonds, and dropped down inside.
Saturday, when three masked men, wearing hats, gloves and dark clothing, entered a building on West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue and climbed up to the roof, sources said. This morning, the NYPD released shocking video of the real life heist, showing the brazen burglars ransacking display cases like hungry piranha. The jewels sell for nearly $900,000, but cost $321,000 wholesale, officials said. The blockbuster 2001 film, starring George Clooney who played the Danny Ocean character, centered around a high-tech Las Vegas casino robbery complete with acrobatic thieves.
Three sophisticated thieves made off with nearly $897,000 worth of baubles after staging an elaborate “Ocean’s Eleven”-like break-in at a Manhattan diamond store on Christmas Day, law enforcement sources said.
