WYCKOFF — A Wyckoff jewelry store was robbed earlier today when four men walked into the store around noon with sledgehammers, police said. The robbers took an undetermined amount of jewelry from Hartgers Jewelers on Wyckoff Avenue and then fled by car, said Matt Fenkart, a spokesman for the Wyckoff police department. Police pursued the robbers down Route 208,...
Map view of Hartgers Jewelers in Wyckoff, which police say was robbed today.WYCKOFF — A Wyckoff jewelry store was robbed earlier today when four men walked into the store around noon with sledgehammers, police said.
The robbers took an undetermined amount of jewelry from Hartgers Jewelers on Wyckoff Avenue and then fled by car, said Matt Fenkart, a spokesman for the Wyckoff police department.
Police pursued the robbers down Route 208, Fenkart said. All four were arrested and are in custody in Wyckoff. The names of the suspects were not immediately available.
The first suspect was arrested when he bailed out of the vehicle in Franklin Lakes, and the others in Hawthorne, Fenkart said.
A Hawthorne officer stopped the getaway vehicle with his police cruiser on Goffle Road, and the remaining suspects were arrested when they tried to run away, he said.
The officer was injured, Fenkart said, but it's not clear whether he was taken to a hospital for treatment.
On Dec. 18, 2001, Hartgers Jewelers was robbed by three men at gunpoint. According to investigators at the time, the men made off with $250,000 in Cartier and Rolex watches in about 90 seconds. All three – plus a driver and and another accomplice – were eventually arrested in Long Island and linked to two other jewelry store robberies in Scarsdale, N.Y., earlier that year.
Staff writer Bob Considine contributed to this report.