Yesterday, twenty Apple laptops were stolen from a Best Buy in South Brunswick, NJ by a crew of very craft thieves: A detective said there was a "High level of sophistication... They never set off any motion sensors. They never touched the floor. They rappelled in and rappelled out."
The robbers gained access to the roof of the building by climbing up a gas pipe. The Star-Ledger reports, "On top of the building, they used a saw to cut through several inches of rubber and insulation, then sliced a 3-foot-wide square in the metal roof, he said. Once inside, the burglars dropped 16 feet to 10-foot-tall racks — avoiding contact with the floor, where motion sensors would have set off an alarm. They snatched the notebooks from the racks, then went back out through the roof."
They also happened to descend into the store in a "spot where the cameras were obscured by advertising banners." Detective James Ryan said, "The tools they had to bring, the alarms they had to circumvent — it certainly required a lot of high-level planning."
