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The bling bandit, a man dressed in a burqa covering most of his face, walked into the luxury Piaget jewelry store at around 3:55 p.m. and asked to look at a necklace, sources and police officials said.
As the clerk pulled out the necklace, priced at about $21,000, he noticed the man was holding onto one of the store’s watches, according to sources.
When the employee questioned the soon-to-be thief, he whipped out the spray bottle and squirted it in the clerk’s direction before running out of the store, with the necklace and two watches ‐ one priced at $64,000, and the other $715,000 ‐ in tow, police sources said.
Piaget, where some watches are so expensive that the price is not even displayed online, valued the loss at around $800,600, sources added.
The suspect could not be identified because the head covering ‐ typically worn by women in some Moslem cultures ‐ concealed most of his face, police sources said.