JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The proprietor of Fifi’s, a consignment apparel store successful San Marco, says he’s offering an grant for accusation starring to an apprehension aft thousands of dollars worthy of decorator purses were stolen from his shop.

Harry Mill said he’s offering a $1,000 reward for accusation starring to an arrest. He sent News4Jax surveillance video that was taken from wrong the store.

The video reveals a antheral wearing a reddish had looking astir the store, walking to and from antithetic covering racks.

Surveillance representation provided by proprietor of Fifi's successful San Marco.

“You tin spot him backmost walking backmost and forth, perpetually staring astatine the manager,” explained Mill. “Pretending similar helium was moving the apparel with his hands, but not looking astatine the covering astatine all.”

Suddenly, he’s seen wearing what appears to beryllium 1 of the bags astir his neck.

“One of our employees handed him 1 of our precise high-end $4,000 Louis Vuitton purses, and past helium asked to spot a 2nd one, and my worker didn’t, unfortunately, get that archetypal 1 back.”

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Later successful the video, 2 customers look beside the main counter. The antheral begins grabbing items disconnected the partition and dashes crossed the store, astir knocking 1 of the customers over, grabbing further items earlier leaving the store.

Mill noted that the antheral was limping severely connected his near leg. He said a pistillate recovered 1 of the purses lying connected the crushed and brought it back.

The proprietor said the store has been unfastened since 1998 and that this benignant of happening doesn’t hap often.

“This is the archetypal crash-and-dash I conjecture you tin telephone it,” Mill said. “We’ve had things hap successful the evening earlier astatine nighttime astatine idiosyncratic volition interruption the model and travel successful and instrumentality worldly retired of determination but ne'er blatantly successful beforehand of the cameras with customers successful the store -- determination was 3 oregon 4 customers, 1 woman conscionable astir got pushed retired of the way, a lawsuit did, and helium stared into and looked astatine each azygous camera I had mounted connected the wall.”

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Apart from that, Mill said, the antheral was wearing a t-shirt that had a bunny rabbit connected it and said “lucky charm.”

He’s been keeping an oculus connected Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist to spot if his missing items crook up. If you cognize thing that tin help, helium hopes you’ll springiness him a telephone oregon interaction authorities.

News4Jax has requested a transcript of the constabulary study from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

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