An LA Thief Cut a Hole In Store Roof and Stole $600,000 of Fine Wine. ‘Like Something Out of ‘Ocean’s Eleven.’

In a scene that could have been ripped from a Hollywood heist movie, a discerning thief with a nose for fine wine cut a hole above the wine cellar of an exclusive Venice, California wine store, dropped down into the dark room, and stole 800 bottles of wine valued at $600,000.

“It was like something out of ‘Ocean’s Eleven.’ We just couldn’t believe it,” Nick Martinelle, the store manager of Lincoln Fine Wines, told CNN.

Now Los Angeles police are looking for the Burgundy burglar who they say worked with at least one other accomplice.

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