Video shows masked thieves using sledgehammer in brazen Lululemon heist before fleeing in U-Haul

Pennsylvania authorities revealed Tuesday that surveillance video has captured a brazen Lululemon smash-and-grab, with 2 masked individuals utilizing a sledgehammer to transportation retired the overnight break-in.

The suspects, seen grabbing armfuls of merchandise during aggregate rounds of theft, reportedly fled the country successful a U-Haul truck, Lower Merion Police told Fox 29 Philadelphia.

The incidental successful the Ardmore buying halfway reportedly occurred conscionable earlier 2 a.m. Tuesday and resulted successful what investigators judge was worthy much than $5,000 of stolen merchandise.

In the video released by police, 2 masked suspects dressed successful each achromatic swung what appeared to beryllium a sledgehammer into the store’s windowed entrance. They past rapidly rushed done the opening without hesitation, instantly targeting wintertime coats and shirts successful the men’s section.

Surveillance footage shows a masked fishy smashing done a Lululemon store entranceway during an overnight break-in. (Lower Merion Police/Fox 29 Philadelphia)

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The suspects appeared to drawback full racks of puffer jackets and sweatshirts earlier returning outside. The video past shows the men coming backmost into the store a 2nd clip aft dropping disconnected the stolen items to instrumentality adjacent much merchandise.

Overall, the footage shows the heist lasting astir 5 minutes.

The individuals fled the country aft loading the stolen merchandise into the furniture of a U-Haul pickup motortruck parked outside, Fox 29 reported.

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Police accidental suspects fled the country successful a U-Haul motortruck aft the overnight Lululemon smash-and-grab. (Lower Merion Police/Fox 29 Philadelphia)

By the afternoon, the store had reopened, but the solid connected the beforehand doorway remained shattered, with a ample banner placed successful beforehand of the entrance, the section presumption reported. 

According to an worker from crossed the store, Tuesday’s incidental was not the archetypal clip the Lululemon store was targeted. 

"I walked retired present with my bartender and we looked, and it’s scary that it’s happening close crossed the mode from us," Gina Picciano, wide manager of Lola’s Garden, told Fox 29.

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The Lululemon store’s solid entranceway was near shattered pursuing the smash-and-grab burglary, authorities said. (Lower Merion Police/Fox 29 Philadelphia)

In past year’s incident, Picciano said the theft occurred during store hours. 

"All of the abrupt a clump of radical were conscionable moving retired with armfuls of stuff, truthful it happens successful wide daylight," helium added. "It doesn’t substance whether it’s nighttime oregon day, and that’s crazy."

The Lower Merion Police told Fox 29 that delayed alarm alerts tin interaction effect times, emphasizing transgression prevention and partnerships with merchants.

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"Sometimes there’s a hold successful receiving these calls with Lululemon due to the fact that their operations center, they’re the ones that person the video and the alarm," Superintendent of Police Andy Block said. "Prevention present is the cardinal for this and we’re ever acrophobic astir the transgression constituent coming into our communities, and our officers enactment each the clip to effort to forestall this, we privation to enactment with our merchants to effort to marque our assemblage safer."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Lower Merion Police and Lululemon for much information.