Flash mobs terrorizing California retailers have attacked a Los Angeles Macy’s store in the latest series of robberies caught on video.
amazing video From inside the Sherman Oaks department store, a group of masked and hoodie-wearing shoplifters are shown stuffing their bags with merchandise shortly after 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
Shoppers are seen waiting in shock as the thieves, described as being in their 20s, cleared out the shelves before fleeing together, dropping some of the stolen merchandise on the floor.
The group fled the Westfield Fashion Square shopping center in two cars: a silver or gold Honda and a black Ford Fusion, ABC 7 reported.
The brazen heist occurred the same day that Southern California law enforcement agencies came together to form a retail crime task force to curb such incidents.
A group of nine masked robbers vandalized and robbed a Macy’s in Sherman Oaks, California. abc
The new task force is comprised of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, along with the US Marshals’ Apprehension Task Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Apprehension Task Force. Research.
The effort has 22 full-time investigators dedicated exclusively to cracking down on organized retail crime in the area.
“What we have seen over the past week in the city of Los Angeles and surrounding regions is unacceptable, which is why we are here today announcing action,” Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement last week about the task force. .
The brazen daytime robbery is just the latest in a series of flash mob robberies plaguing California retailers. CBS
“These are not victimless crimes, especially in the case where Angelenos were attacked, through force or fear, while doing their job or running errands.”
Thursday’s robbery followed a larger raid at a Nordstrom in Canoga Park on Aug. 12, when more than 30 masked robbers made off with more than $300,000 worth of goods.
The incident also resulted in one of the suspects using bear spray on a security guard who responded to the robbery, Los Angeles police said.
Since then, the retail crime task force has arrested 11 people allegedly in connection with the Nordstrom robbery and four other incidents.
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