50 seconds and gone: Saskatoon jewelry store heist nets thieves gold, diamonds

Dan Zakreski · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 06, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 6

Arif Ratnani's 50 seconds of panic featured gold, diamonds, masked men, a machete and a hammer.

Ratnani owns Jewels, a store successful The Centre Mall successful Saskatoon. Around 2 p.m. CST Wednesday, helium was unsocial successful the store, settling down down a antagonistic to devour his luncheon orange.

That's erstwhile 2 masked men strolled into the store carrying totes, a hammer and a machete.

They didn't accidental a connection and didn't adjacent admit Ratnani. They conscionable began smashing show cases.

"They chose peculiar showcases, they mightiness person been present before, this is what I sense," helium said successful an interview.

"Within a minute, they broke possibly 7 glasses and took a batch of jewelry from here, similar golden and diamonds."

He ran to a neighbouring store and had idiosyncratic telephone 911. Moments later, the 2 men near the store and walked retired a promenade exit door. They took disconnected successful a Nissan half-ton, helium said.

CBC reviewed the information footage from the store. The 2 men methodically smash cases, dumping trays into tote bags. They bash not adjacent look astatine Ratnani arsenic helium runs retired of the store, and the camera captures promenade shoppers walking by the storefront.

Ratnani is inactive shaken because, helium knows helium could person been injured and it appears the store had been staked retired by the thieves. He estimates they made disconnected with thousands of dollars successful diamonds and gold.

Police accidental they're investigating.