Posted on 11/23/2021 12:54:57 PM PST by RandFan
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall in Los Angeles, triggering a police pursuit just days after high-end stores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area were targeted.
The latest incident in a national trend of smash-and-grab crimes targeted a Nordstrom store at The Grove retail and entertainment complex. It came as the country’s largest consumer electronics chain said that an increase in organized theft was taking a toll on its bottom line.
Workers covered a large broken window at the Nordstrom with black plywood on Tuesday morning as security guards came in and out of the store. Passersby were allowed inside the retailer ahead of the upcoming Black Friday shopping weekend.
The thieves struck around 10:40 p.m. Monday, said Officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman. Officers pursued an SUV involved in the crime and the chase ended in South Los Angeles with three people taken into custody, he said. The number of people involved in the crime was not known, Madison said.
The Grove incident followed a weekend of similar smash-and-grab thefts in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beverly Hills.
Groups of thieves, some carrying crowbars and hammers, smashed glass cases and window displays and ransacked high-end stores in brazen organized theft throughout the Bay Area, stealing jewelry, sunglasses, suitcases and other merchandise before fleeing in waiting cars.
The thefts are believed to be part of sophisticated criminal networks that recruit mainly young people to steal merchandise in stores throughout the country and then sell it in online marketplaces. Experts and law enforcement officials say the thefts are ratcheting up as the holiday shopping season gets underway.
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The more this happens the folks may wake up. Maybe.
Nordstrom is the country’s largest consumer electronics chain???
Complacency has its price. I hope it keeps up. It will either wake people up or it will destroy the country. Even the latter would be better than being herded into slavery.
Hey, why not? No one will stop them, and if they do, those trying to stop them will go to jail.
Looters looting.
Oh wait, my bad......
The Asspress thinks they are great.
Best Buy is having a hard time retaining employees with all the crowbar wielding gangs rampaging through their stores. So they say in a release today.
1968. Our most turbulent year while LBJ was POTUS. Voters settled it in November electing Nixon. Will it happen now? Doubt it. There are no Mayor Dalys out there. A democrat who loved America.
Butt, butt, butt we can’t have vigilantes roaming the streets. Right raggedy jen you ignorant sl.....
What was the line on Melania's jacket?
The 3 they caught from this last night are probably already out planning thier next evening of reparations
I think you hit part of it on the head...there was once a time when Democrats were Americans too.
No longer.
They are universally domestic enemies of The Constitution.
Universally.
Beverly Hills and other affluent areas of LA have been small islands as the lowlife and bad areas slowly swallow them up...Those islands have been shrinking for decades.
I've been saying this since the 1977 blackout in NYC.
That approach would end the madness very quickly.
” Nordstrom store at The Grove retail and entertainment complex.”
close to us. If they hit the Grove which is a swanky complex here in L.A., I’m almost sure they’ll hit Beverly Hills.
Yer business model is dead, ask circuit city.
it won’t change California elections one bit.
libtard voting practices will barely budge, and electoral corruption in California is firmly institutionalized.
Best - it could wake up stupid bleeding heart liberal ‘elites’ who think it’s cool to stand with thugs and ‘show compassion’...
If enough ‘elites’ suffer along with the rest of us maybe they’ll quit being total assh*les...
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