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Rochester, NY--A brazen smash-and-grab mall robbery has law enforcement and the community concerned.

On June 8 before 7 p.m. eight persons between the ages of 15 and 20 entered The Mall at Greece Ridge, Rochester TV station WROC TV News 8 reported based on local police accounts. Two of the suspects reportedly stayed near the vestibule, while the other six suspects entered the Dubai Jewelry store and used baseball bats to smash the display cases inside the taking $90,000 worth of jewelry. All were wearing masks and gloves.

[A chaotic scene at the Dubai Jewelry store. Source: screen grab of surveillance video from the WROC website]

Sheriff Todd Baxter from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office saw the video Greece Police posted online of the incident, reportedly noting that he and the people of the small town of Greece where the robbery occurred are outraged and concerned.

“I’ve been doing this almost 40 years in Monroe County in different jurisdictions and I’ve never seen the brazenness,” Sheriff Baxter told WROC. “I’ve never seen groups of seven or eight people going into a mall and committing a grand larceny before everyone’s eyes, as bold as can be.”

He added that he’s worried about crimes committed by youth. “My fear as a sheriff is that we’ve let go in some of the criminal justice reforms and we now see this brazenness that we’ve never seen before,” Sheriff Baxter told WROC.

Read more on the WROC News 8 website.