Suburban Houston Hutton Jewelry Store Robbery in Texas Jan. 10, 2018

Summary: The suburban Houston Hutton jewelry store robbery Jan. 10, 2018, is violent like the same-day Paris Ritz Hotel theft, but unlike in getaways and takeouts.

Surveillance video screenshot Jan. 10, 2018, records smash-and-grab suspects Smasher (left) with hammer, which he has just removed from under his left armpit, and Grabber (right); employee subsequently tries to stop them by throwing plate-like item on small table (left of display case): Sugar Land Police Department @SugarLandPD, via Facebook Jan. 18, 2018

The suburban Houston Hutton jewelry store robbery in Sugar Land, Texas, Jan. 10, 2018, adds another gash-and-grab theft to four million-dollar-plus jewel heists within the first 12 days of the new year.

The two perpetrators of the Hutton's Jewelry & Gifts store robbery bore a bash-and-bundle behavioral resemblance to the five-perpetrator Paris Ritz Hotel robbery Jan. 10, 2018. They compared not at all to the after-hours, key-accessed, non-violent carryout of the diamond-adorned Russo-Baltique vodka bottle from Cafe 33 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan. 2, 2018. They did not delay detection devices or depart without damaging displays like the Doge's Palace Al Thani diamond robbery duo in Venice, Italy, Jan. 3, 2018.

The suburban Houston Hutton jewelry store robbery entailed an extreme extraction of $2 million in diamond jewelry by two men before two eyewitnesses and surveillance cameras.

Footage furnished to ABC News online reporter Kevin Kraus and Houston ABC station KTRK focuses upon one man feigning interest in engagement rings in display cases.

Footage gives the swift succession of events of the man grabbing jewels from glass cases gashed by a hammer-wielding companion into pieces that go every which-way. It has two men heading, in faded jeans and white-soled footwear, at 12:20 p.m. local time (6:20 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time UTC) to rearmost display cases. It indicates the man interested in rings in a black-red cap and Chicago Bulls jacket and the dark-jacketed hammer-wielder in a white visor cap on backwards.

Sugar Land spokesman Doug Adolph judges that "We have not connected our suspects to any other cases, but it's a safe bet they've done that before."

Sugar Land knows no recent robberies by 200- to 220-pound (90.72- to 99.79-kilogram) 30-plus-year-olds 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet (1.75 to 1.83 meters) tall.

Sugar Land's incorporated city logo, name and seal from 1959 look back to refineries located in 1879 on Mexican land grants launched as plantations in 1836. Mexican grants, William Kyle's, Benjamin Terry's and Nathaniel Williams' plantations and Edward Cunningham's and Littleberry Ellis' refineries manage 21st-century makeovers at Town Center Boulevard North businesses. Fort Bend County's politico-economic unit nets Town Center businesses such as Kent and Cay Hutton's Jewelry & Gifts and the suburban Houston Hutton jewelry store robbery.

The suburban Houston Hutton jewelry store robbery occurred to experienced business owner-operators with 24- and 26-year-long jewelry careers respectively in Roswell, New Mexico, and Maui, Hawaii.

Deutsch & Deutsch jewelers on Westheimer Road in River Oaks Dec. 22, 2017, at 3:30 a.m. locally (9:30 a.m. UTC) presents the only recent Houston-area heist.

One of two intruders quit the 23-year business by rappelling through roof holes and realizing 15- to 20-foot (4.57- to 6.09-meter) run-jumps to the next roof. On-site evidence ranges from bloody trails to broken glass, ditched jewels and footage of axe-wielding, gloved, hooded, sweat-shirted intruders retreating from prompt responses to security alarms. Owner-operator Lance Deutsch said, "They don't realize that many are locked up in a safe at night so you break in, there's nothing in the glasses."

The suburban Houston Hutton jewelry store robbery teamed Paris Ritz Hotel theft-type tactics with Cafe 33- and Doge's Palace-type takeouts for tentatively 100 percent success rates.

Screenshot from surveillance video Jan. 10, 2018, shows smash-and-grab suspects Smasher (left) and Grabber (right) just before they exit Hutton's Jewelry & Gifts, Houston, Texas: Sugar Land Police Department @SugarLandPD, via Facebook Jan. 18, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Screenshot from surveillance video Jan. 10, 2018, records smash-and-grab suspects Smasher (left) with hammer, which he has just removed from under his left armpit, and Grabber (right); employee subsequently tries to stop them by throwing plate-like item on small table (left of display case): Sugar Land Police Department @SugarLandPD, via Facebook Jan. 18, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/SugarLandPD/videos/vb.1449658385284129/1994158770834085/

Screenshot from surveillance video Jan. 10, 2018, shows smash-and-grab suspects Smasher (left) and Grabber (right) just before they exit Hutton's Jewelry & Gifts, Houston, Texas: Sugar Land Police Department @SugarLandPD, via Facebook Jan. 18, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/SugarLandPD/videos/vb.1449658385284129/1994158770834085/


For further information:

Hernandez, Haley; Hernandez, Cathy; and Cochran, Amanda. 22 December 2017. "At Least 2 Sought in Jewelry Store Heist Near River Oaks." Click 2 Houston > News > Local News.
Available @ https://www.click2houston.com/news/houston-police-investigating-river-oaks-early-morning-jewelry-store-heist

Kraus, Kevin. 19 January 2018. "Thieves Smash Display Cases at Houston Store, Make Off with $2M in Jewelry." ABC News > US.
Available @ http://abcnews.go.com/US/brazen-thieves-smash-display-cases-houston-store-make/story?id=52456810

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 January 2018. "Al Thani Collection Brooch and Earrings Stolen at Venice Exhibition." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/01/al-thani-collection-brooch-and-earrings.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 January 2018. "Stolen Diamond-Adorned Russo-Baltique Vodka Bottle Found Dented, Empty." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/01/stolen-diamond-adorned-russo-baltique.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 19 January 2018. "Paris Ritz Hotel Robbery: Jewels Back, Three of Five Suspects Jailed." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2018/01/paris-ritz-hotel-robbery-jewels-back.html

Sugar Land Police Department. "Smash-and-Grab Suspects in $2M Jewelry Heist." Facebook. Jan. 18, 2018.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/SugarLandPD/videos/vb.1449658385284129/1994158770834085/