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The quartet hopped out wearing gloves and hoodies and quickly snatched up mostly handbags at Ron’s Buy Sell Trade after the crash bent a metal security gate around 2 a.m. Dec. 20, Little Ferry Police Chief James Walters said.
The bandits then sped off east on the highway in a black Dodge Challenger, leaving behind the pickup stolen moments earlier from outside the Ridgefield Park home of an employee for a landscaping company in Palisades Park, he said.
The store -- which also does high-end consignment -- remains closed until further notice, according to an Instagram post by owner Rani Abdalrhman.
“To my fellow store owners, please be vigilant,” Abdalrhman wrote. “[I] never anticipated such an incident occurring this soon.”
He was compiling a total cost of the stolen items for police.
The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification evidence at the scene and A&D Towing brought the pickup to police headquarters to be processed, as well.
Walters’s detectives also gathered surveillance video.
Inspectors, meanwhile, determined that the building remains structurally sound.
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