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Thieves in Miami stole $1.1 million worth of high-end Ukrainian vodka by busting a hole in a warehouse wall and making off with 4,500 gold-encrusted bottles of the infused spirit, US media reported this week. 

“They appeared to know right where to put the hole: right in the middle of the aisle, next to the vodka,” Mark Owens, president of the vodka company Spirits of the Tsars, told a local NBC affiliate in south Florida.

Surveillance video from the scene of the June 22 theft shows a group of men pulling up to the warehouse in a Mercedes sedan and returning several times over the next few hours in increasingly larger vehicles: first a van, then a large truck.

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