text: Police seek suspects in Atlantic City jewel heist . ATLANTIC CITY , N.J. 1996-08-29 Atlantic City police said Thursday they were seeking two men and two women in connection with a $ 690,000 theft of jewelry and cash from a guest of the Showboat Hotel and Casino . Capt . Richard Andrews said police were seeking a man shown on a hotel videotape carrying a suitcase resembling the victim 's . " We want to talk to him , " Andrews said of the man . A second man and two women also were being sought . The thefts occurred Sunday when the victim , New York jewelry wholesaler Jerry Schein , left three suitcases in a closet at Somerset Jewellers in the hotel while he checked out . While he was gone , two women in their mid-twenties and an older man entered the jewelry store and tried to distract store owner Charles McGilley . When Schein returned two of the suitcases were missing . They contained $ 650,000 in jewelry and $ 40,000 in cash , Andrews said . He said the man on the videotape did not match the description given by the jewelry store owner .