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Robbers attempt jewelry store heist dressed as policemen
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Owner defends store with gun
- Duration 1:37
- Date Jul 29, 2012
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Clearly the four guys who tried robbing Marcellus jewelry Friday morning had a plan.
Just a play cops to get inside then make off like bandits.
-- wouldn't go -- -- convenient it was police.
Like on the back on the -- this.
And the plan seemed to be working they have police lights in their Saturn vehicle shirts and -- with police written on them.
Even badges pursue these fake cops would show their true colors.
Came in -- Gonzalez and as he walked in saying what.
Order Marcelo Suarez was able to grab -- nine millimeter start shooting gunshots were fired back and forth.
Fortunately he wasn't hit.
But it appears -- the suspects may have taken around the impostors got away empty handed but they did leave Marcelo in some of the other nearby business owners shaken up.
Now I have come in here trying.
You know.
You know coming into the problem -- these -- you know.
It brings it to another level when you have someone who's potentially impersonating a police officer.
So exactly how can you tell a real officer from someone posing as one.
It's -- -- the uniform is it similar to the ones you used to seeing in your neighborhood.
You can always ask to see their credentials we all are required -- to appease the carrier credentials on -- an all time our photo ID.
You can also call mine and that's calmly if a real officer is indeed -- speak with you officer -- jealous this case they Friday's robbery attempt.
Or incredibly frustrating and we had spent a lot of piers building the trust -- the community building a working relationship with them.
And the last we want -- some.
Somebody coming in pertaining to be -- and now we're kind of going backwards.