Thieving mob scatters at O.C. jewelry store owner’s warning shot

An Anaheim jewelry shop owner sent more than a dozen would-be thieves scrambling when he fired off a warning shot as they were attempting to break into his store, surveillance footage shows.

The July 17 incident occurred just before 6:30 p.m. at Al-Amira Jewelry, located at 570 South Brookhurst Street, according to the Anaheim Police Department.

In footage of the incident, a caravan of at least a half-dozen vehicles carrying the masked and hooded suspects pulls into the strip mall parking lot and rushes to the entrance of Al-Amira Jewelry armed with a pickaxe and a sledgehammer and many of them carrying bags, presumably to throw the stolen merchandise into…

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