Police in Glendale are seeking information about a break-in at a jewelry shop that was ransacked and damaged.
Officers were dispatched at 9 a.m. Tuesday to investigate a report of a burglary at Bidrussian Jewelry on the 1100 block of South Glendale Boulevard, police said in a news release.
Upon arrival, they were told by the business owner that lights were on inside, despite the fact that he had turned them off and secured the premises the previous evening.
Officers went in and discovered the store had been “severely damaged and ransacked.” They also smelled a strong odor of gunpowder and burnt material, police said.
County firefighters and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad was summoned to make sure the building was safe.
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The amount of property taken was not disclosed, and the case is being investigated as an isolated burglary.
Anyone with information that could help investigators was urged to call Glendale police at 818-548-3127.
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