A jewelry thief posing as a wheelchair-using customer snatched a $27,000 Rolex, pepper- sprayed a security guard — and then ran from the Connecticut store on his perfectly healthy legs, police said.
The dapper thief wheeled himself into the Sidney Thomas Jewelry store in Stamford around 2 p.m. Saturday and asked a female jeweler to show him the pricey watches in a display case, police told NBC Connecticut.
After trying on three Rolexes, the thief stunned employees and security guards by jumping up and scrambling toward the door, pepper-spraying a worker who tried to grab him.
A security guard rushed into the store when he heard the commotion and was also pepper-sprayed, according to Stamford police.