Police in Montgomery County are looking for a man who, they say, stole $150,000 worth of jewelry from a J.C. Penney department store in the Westfield Wheaton
mall, in Wheaton.The incident happened May 21, and police put out video surveillance photos showing the person.
Police received a call just before 9 a.m. that a store employee had found a burglary had happened. Footage from a video surveillance camera showed that earlier that morning, around 3:19 a.m., a man had entered the store by throwing rocks and breaking a glass door on the third floor.
Once inside, he went to the jewelry department, broke two of the glass cases and stole jewelry, police said. The man was seen on the video leaving the store around 3:26 a.m.
A cash reward of up to $10,000 is being offered. Anyone with information in the case is asked to call 240-773-5500.
Dana Hedgpeth contributed to this report.
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