Posted on 07/17/2012 8:44:11 AM PDT by crosshairs
TROUTDALE -- A flash mob targeted a Troutdale store last weekend and investigators are trying to identify the suspects.
Investigators said as many as 40 kids entered the Albertsons store at 25691 SE Stark Street at the same time late Saturday night and started stealing things.
Raw video: Flash robbery
Security officers chased the thieves out, but no one was captured. They also left employees pretty shaken up, including one woman who was in tears after getting terrorized by the robbers.
Investigators have not said exactly how many items were taken.
"Basically it looks like they went in, just to cause chaos, which they accomplished," said Sgt. Steve Bevens with the Troutdale Police Department.
Investigators believe the suspects ranged in age from 13 to 15. They could be seen on surveillance video, roaming from aisle to aisle.
Customers said the store employees were overwhelmed and outnumbered.
"They [thieves] were bragging and laughing about how much stuff they stole and what they did in the store," one witness told KGW.
If caught, the suspects could face several charges including rioting, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief.
This was one of several flash mob-style robberies being investigated in the Portland Metro area over past months.
I think it is a repost of the earlier one....
They likely came from East Portland....not far away
Actually I just looked at a map, and this is really in Gresham...an eastern suburb of Portland....and near Mt. Hood Community College....not the greatest area if I recall.
Thanks. I overlooked the 6/18/12 date.
Why not just use the real thing? Solve that problem for all time.
Folks, these incidents are popping up all over the country and it’s can’t be a coincidence.
This is the Obama reelection campaign IMO. They want this to get so out of hand they can agrue about “security” during an election and thus it should be postponed.
I don’t put ANYTHING past these commie bastards.
This is exactly they way civilization will have to be re-won. One person at a time.
BTW, I don't know any old man who does not carry a gun everywhere they go.
I suggest you do too.
Authorities seem to be taking all these ‘flash mob’ robberies as ‘teen age pranks’..mischief.
This is not mischief. This is theft- on a massive scale.
Are the authorities looking the other way because they are black???? Can you imagine what would go down if the 'mischief making teens were white??
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