A jewelry store inside Town East Mall in Mesquite was burglarized over the weekend after police say someone broke through concrete and sheetrock walls to steal more than $2 million in jewelry and property.
Mesquite Police said they were called to the mall at about 11 a.m. Saturday to investigate a burglary at American Jewelers after an employee arrived to find a hole in the wall and a large amount of jewelry missing.
The jewelry store is on the mall's ground level and shares interior walls with a former Sears department store and a loading dock.
Police said the burglars were able to first break into the Sears store and then break through a concrete wall separating the department store and jewelry store. The final barrier of sheetrock was "busted out" as the crooks entered the jewelry store.
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Neither police nor American Jewelers have released any further details about what was taken in the heist or the total value lost. Preliminary estimates are losses of at least $2 million.
No suspects have been identified and no arrests have been announced.
Investigators were said to be working with mall security to get video from within the mall but police told NBC 5 Monday that they were not yet aware of any surveillance video.
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The Sears store at Town East Mall was the last Sears location to close in North Texas in 2021. According to our partners at The Dallas Morning News, there was a plan to redevelop that part of the mall but the city said in 2021 that nothing had been decided about any proposal.
