A jewelry store in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood was the latest site of a Bay Area smash-and-grab jewelry theft on Sunday involving multiple suspects, who also pepper-sprayed employees during the heist, police said.
The robbery happened at about 11:15 a.m. at Aster Jewelers on Mountain Boulevard between Moraga Avenue and La Salle Avenue just north of Highway 13. The jewelry store posted word about the incident on social media on Sunday.
"Thankfully, while our team is shaken up, no one was seriously hurt," the post caption read. "We've got burning eyes from pepper spray, smashed cases, and stolen jewelry."
The post also said that while store inventory was taken, no customer repairs or personal jewelry was stolen.
The Oakland Police Department said the robbery involved multiple peo