London Police Probe Biggest Jewelry Heist In London's History...Maybe as Much as $300 Million USD

London's special police squad which deals with thefts and armed robberies is probing a major jewelry heist from the famous Hatton Gardens in the Jewelry District. The Hatton Gardens is a safety deposit vault where jewelers can rent safety deposit boxes in a special vault for safe keeping. And many of the jewelers in the area had placed their entire stocks into their boxes for the long Easter weekend when most shops were closed and since it was passover too, all of the jewelry cutters and dealers were closed as well. The police estimate the robbery to be in the 200 British Pounds range or $300 Million US Dollars. There could potentially be more because there is no written logs of what each person kept in his safety deposit box of which 300 were broken into so there could also be drugs and cash in those boxes as well and other illegal items. One working theory is that the robbers hide in the building and then used the elevator shaft to access the vault because you have to use a double door system just to enter the building and that was not damaged during the heist. On Friday, an alarm went off but the security guard on duty silenced it and looked around but didn't find anything out of place. So that is probably when the robbery occurred. No other clues were released to the media.