Eye witnesses called the gendarmes while the suspects were in the act but two of them managed to escape before the gendarmes reached the scene by foot. The third suspect was caught with an amount of the stolen goods in the back of a getaway car.
The two suspects who escaped were later arrested, one of them turned out to be a repeat offender and was transferred to Guadeloupe.
In an unrelated case, a 20 year old man was sentenced to two years imprisonment, six months of which are suspended for slashing another man with a knife. The fight between two took place in French Quarter reported the Gendarmerie.