They think these are the same guys that did this since it's right down the road.
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LIMERICK — Two men robbed a jewelry store in the Philadelphia Premium Outlets Monday night, holding two store employees at gunpoint and forcing them to fill garbage bags with diamond jewelry.
Limerick Township Police Chief William Albany said a large amount of jewelry was stolen from the Zales Outlet store during the robbery, but no one was injured.
"This could have very easily had a deadly outcome," Albany said of the robbery. "Thankfully there was no force used against employees" or others.
According to police, two men entered the Zales Outlet store, one a few minutes after the other around 8:27 p.m., a half-hour before the store closed.
One of the men was wearing a green Phillies cap, jeans, and a white and green striped polo shirt, and was described as a black male, possibly having a goatee or beard, possibly wearing glasses and having a thin build.
The other man was described as a black male with a long beard and a thin build and wearing a red Phillies cap, a Nike T-shirt, shorts and Aviator glasses.
One of the men asked an associate to see engagement rings and the other man asked to see tennis bracelets.
The first man asked an associate for an SKU number from one of the engagement rings, and as the store associate went to get the information, the second man pulled out a black handgun, police said.
"Both store associates were directed to fill black trash bags that each of the actors pulled from their pant pockets," according to police.
When both bags were filled, the men told the store associates to go in the back room and then they left "calmly" out the front door toward the parking lot, police said. Among the items the men got away with was a 2-carat diamond engagement ring, several solitaire engagement rings, enhancers, fancy engagement rings, quads, and solitaire engagement rings with side diamonds, police said.
Police noted that this robbery is similar to two other incidents in New Jersey, one at a Kay Jewelers in Cherry Hill, N.J., on March 23, and the other at a Zales Outlet in Jackson, N.J., on June 29.
"I hope this isn't the beginning of a serious problem," Albany said, "because we are expending a significant amount of our police resources at a disproportionately small portion of the township."
He was referring to the number of retail theft and similar incidents his department already responds to at the outlets.