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AP: LA luxury mall latest to be hit by smash-and-grab thieves
AP ^ | Nov 23 | By EUGENE GARCIA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; bidenvoters; california; crime; dystopia; mall
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I hate thieves..
1 posted on 11/23/2021 12:54:57 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The more this happens the folks may wake up. Maybe.


2 posted on 11/23/2021 12:56:54 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: RandFan

Nordstrom is the country’s largest consumer electronics chain???


3 posted on 11/23/2021 12:57:27 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: RandFan

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.


4 posted on 11/23/2021 12:57:37 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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To: RandFan

Hey, why not? No one will stop them, and if they do, those trying to stop them will go to jail.


5 posted on 11/23/2021 12:57:39 PM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: RandFan

Looters looting.
Oh wait, my bad......


6 posted on 11/23/2021 12:57:52 PM PST by cranked
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To: RandFan

The Asspress thinks they are great.


7 posted on 11/23/2021 12:59:45 PM PST by Luke21
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To: mylife

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.


8 posted on 11/23/2021 1:00:16 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge )
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To: ealgeone

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.


9 posted on 11/23/2021 1:00:28 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Butt, butt, butt we can’t have vigilantes roaming the streets. Right raggedy jen you ignorant sl.....


10 posted on 11/23/2021 1:00:39 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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A group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall in Los Angeles

What was the line on Melania's jacket?

11 posted on 11/23/2021 1:01:28 PM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: RandFan

The 3 they caught from this last night are probably already out planning thier next evening of reparations


12 posted on 11/23/2021 1:02:13 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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.


13 posted on 11/23/2021 1:02:42 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: RandFan

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.


14 posted on 11/23/2021 1:02:54 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Looters should be shot on sight.

I've been saying this since the 1977 blackout in NYC.

That approach would end the madness very quickly.

15 posted on 11/23/2021 1:03:04 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 8 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
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” 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.


16 posted on 11/23/2021 1:03:13 PM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: hardspunned

Yer business model is dead, ask circuit city.


17 posted on 11/23/2021 1:04:58 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: RandFan

it won’t change California elections one bit.

libtard voting practices will barely budge, and electoral corruption in California is firmly institutionalized.


18 posted on 11/23/2021 1:05:09 PM PST by PGR88
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To: RandFan
 
 
It's very lucrative unless something changes. So naturally the crime is gonna organize and even expand.
 
 

19 posted on 11/23/2021 1:05:20 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: ealgeone

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...


20 posted on 11/23/2021 1:06:06 PM PST by GOPJ (One man lying to himself is pathetic - - a culture lying to itself seeds it's own destruction.)
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