As crime runs rampant in the Bay Area, an Oakland, California, jewelry store that has been in business for 40 years was robbed of 85-90% of its inventory when eight thieves brandishing weapons and accompanied by two getaway cars hit the store Wednesday afternoon.
The Trinh family, which owns Phuong Jewelry in Oakland’s Chinatown Wednesday, had let their business insurance lapse because premiums had risen. Video showed the eight thieves shattering every case as they ravaged the store.
Diane Trinh, 69, hid and yelled for help as no security guard was on duty; her 76-year-old husband burst in with a firearm, prompting the thieves to flee.
“If he hadn’t done that they would have kept going,” the Trinhs’ son Tony, the executive director of the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council, said. “We’ve been robbed a few times before but not at this level of brazen magnitude. Eight…
