[Jewelry making - Article 00004] - [Orchid] Men Posing as FedEx Workers Rob Jewelry Wholesaler

[Linda Castellani]

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    Two men posing as Federal Express employees breezed through security
    at a tightly guarded building in the city's diamond district
    yesterday, rode the elevator to the sixth floor and robbed a jewelry
    wholesaler of goods valued at $4 million, the police said. 

    Sporting dyed red curly hair and dark sunglasses, one of the robbers
    held out a gun while his pudgy accomplice tied up five employees and
    two customers at Doppelt & Greenwald Diamond Inc. at 580 Fifth Avenue
    during a brazen lunchtime holdup that brought two blocks of Midtown
    Manhattan to a virtual standstill. 

    According to Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, one of the robbers
    carried a package that was too big to slide under the door at Doppelt
    & Greenwald. The robbers said it had to be signed for, the
    commissioner said, and when the door was opened, they showed the gun. 

    The robbers spent at least five minutes in the wholesaler's office
    and did not fire a shot. Instead, they filled a duffel bag with
    diamonds and other jewelry and calmly walked away, slipping out of
    the building through the employee entrance on West 47th Street, the
    police said. 

    A worker at Doppelt & Greenwald, one of the 1,700 wholesale
    companies that cram the diamond district, managed to free himself
    from his restraints and alerted a building security guard, who called
    911 around 12:50 p.m., Police Capt. Stephen Hughes said. 

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