By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Police are looking for two men who robbed a downtown Salina jewelry store late Tuesday afternoon.
Officers were called to Vernon Jewelers, 123 N. Santa Fe Avenue, at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday for the report of a robbery.
An employee told officers that two Black men entered the store and were looking at gold chains and then wanted to look at men's rings, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning. An employee got out a tray with five rings from the display case for the men to look at. One of the men then went to the restroom.
When the man returned, the other man grabbed the tray with the rings and both men fled the store and headed eastbound, Forrester said.
One man was described as an older Black man with a shaved head who was wearing a black COVID-19-style mask, a black hoodie, and blue jeans.
The other man was described as a younger Black man with dreadlocks and a beard who was wearing a K-State shirt and a Carhartt-style tan jacket.
The rings were valued at just under $11,000, Forrester said.
Police are reviewing surveillance video from the jewelry store and the downtown Salina area, he said.