GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A pregnant woman is among six people seen on surveillance video stealing cellphones worth $24,000 from a Verizon store in Montgomery County, police said.
Police are asking the public for help identifying the six women seen on video stealing from a Verizon store in the 200 block of Copley Place in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Six women came into the store, created a diversion around 6:30 p.m. on July 18 and stole 29 cellphones worth about $24,000, police said.
The video shows the women entering and walking around the store. One of the women was carrying a small child.
While an employee assists one of the women in another area of the store, a woman can be seen entering an open storeroom then stealing the phones.
As the woman exited the storeroom, the employee is seen confronting the woman at which point the other five female suspects overwhelm the employee and then flee the store, police said.
The woman who entered the storeroom and stole the phones may have been pretending to be pregnant in order to conceal the phones, according to police.
All of the suspects wore long skirts, which detectives believe was in effort to conceal the stolen items.
The six suspects were last seen fleeing the area in a dark-colored minivan.
Anyone with information is asked to call the 6th District Investigative Section at 240-773-5770.
Crime Solvers of Montgomery County will pay a cash reward of up to $10,000 for information provided that leads to an arrest in this case.
This is an ongoing investigation.
