Police have charged a woman following the theft of $275,000 worth of jewellery from a store at Campbelltown.
On Friday 2 March 2012, the management of a jewellery store in Campbelltown reported the theft of over $275,000 worth of gold necklaces, bracelets, rings and pendants.
Police will allege a 48-year-old woman, who was a former employee of the store, stole the items of jewellery and later sold them for cash.
Yesterday afternoon detectives from Campbelltown Local Area Command attended another jewellery store at a shopping centre in Liverpool where they arrested the woman.
She was taken to Campbelltown Police Station and charged with larceny as a clerk or servant and granted conditional bail to appear in Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday 21 March 2012.
It will be alleged the woman stole in excess of 90 pieces of jewellery while employed at the store in Kellicar Drive, Campbelltown with five stolen necklaces located at her home in Mount Annan.
Investigations into the thefts are continuing with further charges expected to be laid.