Video shows thieves giving each other high-fives after West Hollywood jewelry heist

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, California -- A radical of thieves pulled disconnected a shocking jewelry heist successful West Hollywood, California.

Surveillance video captured the radical celebrating, and adjacent giving each different high-fives during the break-in.

It happened past week betwixt June 17 and June 18 astatine Huener Jewelry connected Santa Monica Boulevard.

The owner's lad told our sister presumption KABC the radical took the store's full inventory, including respective safes.

"At archetypal I thought they similar chopped a spread done the wall, and they got in, and they did a speedy robbery and they left, but it turned retired ... it took much than 24 hours," said Robert Goukasian, who said the store's alarms ne'er went off.

He said the 4 suspects completed the heist successful 2 trips - 1 successful the aboriginal greeting hours and different precocious astatine night.

They broke successful done the concern next-door by cutting a spread done the partition and yet emptied 2 ample safes that contained hundreds of pieces of one-of-a-kind jewelry.

In surveillance footage, you tin spot the 4 suspects moving unneurotic to get into a safe. At 1 point, they're seen smiling, giving each different high-fives and adjacent sharing hugs.

Detectives are present moving to spot if the radical is connected to immoderate different thefts.

The household has owned the jewelry store since 1986 and said contempt the devastating loss, they aren't giving up.

"We've beauteous overmuch mislaid everything that we had successful the store, but we are precise optimistic. We are strong."

Anyone with accusation is urged to interaction police.