Posted on 06/13/2021 3:15:30 PM PDT by dennisw
A manhunt was underway in California this week for a "coordinated group" of 11 suspected thieves who ran into a Louis Vuitton store and fled with more than $100,000 in handbags, according to authorities.
Police said the incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. Monday at a shopping center in Palo Alto, about 30 miles south of downtown San Francisco. The group stormed the store, grabbed 36 handbags, and fled the scene, an investigation revealed.
"They exited the store quickly, ran through the mall, and fled in five vehicles prior to police arrival," according to Palo Alto police.
Witnesses described the suspects – who were all wearing face coverings -- as Black males and females, possibly in their late teens or early twenties, police said. The suspects caused no injuries, and no weapons were used during the alleged theft, authorities added.
The suspects' vehicles were described as a gray Lexus sedan, a gray Infinity SUV, a white Audi sedan, a black four-door Hyundai sedan, and a red two-door Honda sedan, witnesses told police.
Surveillance video of the incident will not be released by police, who shared two photos of a suspect on Tuesday. A witness was able to photograph the woman as she fled through the mall carrying some of the stolen handbags, police said.
Authorities were working with regional partners to see if the suspects may be linked to other similar crimes in the area.
Palo Alto police said a similar case occurred at a Neiman Marcus store in the city last month, though the vehicles used in the incident were different, according to FOX 2 of the Bay Area.
During the May 19 theft, a group of at least 10 suspects ran into the open store and made out with 43 handbags, valued at more than $150,000, police said.
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They needed them for props in a rap video.
Witnesses described the suspects – who were all wearing face coverings — as Black males and females, possibly in their late teens or early twenties.
It’s interesting how each sex is obsessed with things the opposite sex is indifferent to in a general sense.
Cost: $155 million in 2013
We are at the point that if citizens act on their own to stop it, the “powers that be” will go after them with everything they’ve got. The criminals, after all, are “socially friendly elements”.
This is how they get around cameras. Have so many people in the group that the cameras can’t get a clear shot and security can’t stop them.
Gay gang?.
So they stole both bags.
Let me guess…coulda been Obama’s son’s?
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