N.Y.P.D. This man, the police say, took a pile of jewelry from a shop in the diamond district 15 months ago. He is still sought.Is this your husband Your father Your funny uncle Mo Did he bring you some new jewelry in the last, say, year and a half
The police said that at 11:20 a.m. on Dec. 15, 2011, the man in this photo entered Italian Elegant Jewelry at 55 West 47th Street, in the heart of the diamond district, on the fifth floor.
Italian Elegant is not so much a showroom, from the looks of things in the store on Friday, as a bunch of no-frills tables with heaps of jewelry piled up. One table holds a mound of thick god chains. Visitors pass a doorman in the lobby and are buzzed in through two separate doors.
The man asked to see heavy gold chains. A saleswoman showed him chains, but when she turned away, the man put jewelry in his pants and left, the police said.
A security camera captured a relatively high-quality image of the man, which the police released on Friday. In it, the man wears a quizzical look on his jowly face, as if stumped trying to remember, on his way home from work, what the wife said to pick up at the bakery. The police said he had salt-and-pepper hair and a dark coat. In the picture, his necktie, with a four-in-hand knot, is a little off-kilter.
The police said there was no particular reason for releasing the photo 15 months to the day after the theft, other than that it was a quality photograph worth sharing.
The owner of Italian Elegant seemed to remember the man, probably because the jewelry he stole was worth, the police said, $108,00! 0.
“Just a regular guy,†the owner said, and declined further comment.
