article_snippet.sent: Detective Chief Inspector Paul Johnson of the London Metropolitan Police Flying Squad said the thieves appeared to have gained access to the vault of Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd through the shaft of an elevator that is used by several businesses in a building in a spectacular holiday weekend heist of safe deposit boxes in the heart of London's jewelry district.
article_snippet.sent: the thieves disabled an elevator that is used by several businesses in the building on the second floor of a building in a spectacular holiday weekend heist of safe deposit boxes in the heart of London's jewelry district -- which would be the same as the third floor in the United States -- then climbed down the shaft of an elevator that is used by several businesses in the building into the basement, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Johnson of the London Metropolitan Police Flying Squad said.
article_snippet.sent: Once there, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Johnson of the London Metropolitan Police Flying Squad said, the thieves used a drill to bore through a 6-foot-thick wall and gain access to the vault where the safe deposit boxes were.
article_snippet.sent: Over the four-day Easter holiday, an unknown number of thieves broke into the vault and might have been able to take as much as four days to rifle through the ransacked safe deposit boxes.
highlights_snippet.sent: Police say the thieves gained entry through the building's communal elevator shaft .
  