High-end ‘bag’-men ‘burglars’
140G Vuitton, Gucci heist
Police on Tuesday released images of the four men suspected of swiping $140,000 in luxury handbags and jewelry from mall CEO Don Ghermezian’s Bronx mansion.
New footage released by the NYPD late Monday shows the burglars walking down a street (above) in the high-end Riverdale neighborhood.
The thieves smashed a window on a rear balcony door to Ghermezian’s multimillion-dollar Grosvenor Avenue mansion at around 5:15 p.m. Saturday while the sprawling, 11,000-square-foot mansion was unoccupied.
Cops also have camera footage of the quartet entering the home and leaving with the stolen goods, according to police.
Ghermeziann (at right) told cops thehe thieves had made offff with 30 Louis Vuitton,on, Gucci and St. Laurentrent bags, valued at a total of $100,000.
The burglarsglars also snatched a pairair of pricey Cortina watches,hes, both worth about $10,000 a pop — as well as $20,000 in jew-welry that in-cluded diamond earrings, rings and a sapphire, according to law-enforcement officials. The NYPD released a still image of the burglars breaking into the back of the house Tuesday, as well as the video from the street. Ghermezian, an Iranian-Canadian developer and CEO of Triple Five Group worth a reported $2 billion, is best known as one of the owners of Minnesota’s sprawling Mall of America. Ghermezian and his businesspartner brothers turned their attention to the Meadowlands in New Jersey over the last few years, taking over construction of the long-stalled — and often ridiculed — mega-mall next to MetLife Stadium. Formerly dubbed Xanadu, the American Dream mall partially opened on Oct. 25 and is expectedpected to be fullyfu operational next year. The mall is slatedsl to includeclude several high-end storefronts — including ones for SainSaint Laurent, Gucci and LouLouis Vuitton — where GhGhermezian could replace his stolen bags if need bbe. GhermGhermezian coucould not be rreached for comment.