Three people with hammers and pepper spray rob Kitchener jewelry store

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Waterloo regional police are investigating an armed robbery at a jewelry store in Fairview Park Mall.

Police were called to the Kitchener shopping center around 8:20 pm Monday.

Police said three men came into the store armed with hammers and pepper spray, smashed display cases, stole merchandise and took off in a silver SUV. The suspects’ ages haven’t been released.

Police didn’t say what store was targeted or how much jewelry was taken.

On Tuesday, police said they didn’t believe the pepper spray or hammers were used during the robbery but display cases had been smashed in another way that

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California couple followed home for 16 miles and robbed of ‘generations of jewelry’

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Robbers followed a Southern California couple home for miles and ripped valuable heirloom jewels out of the woman’s hands in a terrifying attack partly caught on tape, officials said Wednesday.

Dr. Vijay Wali and his wife, Dr. Jyotika Wali, had just pulled into their driveway in Fullerton on Friday night when two men attacked, one pouncing on each of them, the family said.

The couple had just visited a jewelry store 16 miles away in Cerritos to have various family jewels polished.

As Jyotika was about to go into the house and Vijay was unloading the trunk, a man ran

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