Category: Shopping Mall

A brazen trio of thieves raided a shopping mall jewelry store in Florida Tuesday, smashing into display cases with hammers and making off with $100,000 worth of luxury watches, according to police.

Video of the 1:30 pm incident shows an employee scurrying off as the masked suspects bashed their way into glass display cases with hammers, according to a Facebook post from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

Officials said the smash-and-grabbers targeted high-end watches at the Diamond Galleria store inside the Citrus Park shopping mall.

The thieves entered through an employee entrance before raiding the jewelry outlet, according to police.

After the heist, the crew ran into a waiting Nissan Murano SUV getaway car.

The robbers remain at large, deputies said.

Smash-and-grab crimes have surged in recent years, with thieves targeting posh shopping districts across the country and forcing some merchants to only admit customers who ring a bell.

A 13-year-old girl’s hand got tangled beneath the handrail of an escalator at a shopping mall in Santa Ana on Sunday, July 31, and had to be freed by firefighters.

The injury occurred at the south end of the MainPlace Mall at about 6:30 pm, Orange County Fire Authority Battalion Chief Michael Morganstern said.

About eight firefighters worked to free her on the first floor as bystanders watched.

The girl was given medication for pain while rescuers disassembled the mechanism, Morganstern said. Then, a small Dremel was used to grind away remaining plastic and metal binding her hand.

“Sometimes we used the biggest tools we could absolutely have,” Morganstern said. “Sometimes we use the smallest tool in our bag of tricks. … The biggest tool any firefighter can have is their brain.”

The process took over an hour.

Afterward, the girl weeped and called out for her mother with her

Amazon is partnering with select stores that we’re used to seeing in local shopping malls to offer same-day Prime deliveries. For now, this only applies to orders from PacSun, GNC, Superdry, and Diesel, but Amazon says it’s working on offering same-day deliveries from Sur La Table and 100% Pure in “the coming months.”

The service is also limited to certain cities, which include in and around Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Miami, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Seattle, and Washington, DC. If you’re located near any of these areas, Amazon says you can now browse through and order a curated selection of goods from local mall stores on Amazon’s site.

Right now, Amazon’s selection of stores seems a bit slim. But if you need some vitamins or a pair of jeans in a pinch — and you haven’t hung out at the mall in years — it could come in handy. While it