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More than 150 home robberies have been reported in Los Angeles this year alone, including many follow-home incidents in upscale neighborhoods where celebrities and high-end restaurants are targeted. In response, experts are telling residents to "let common sense rule" and the LAPD issued a list of recommendations to help keep people from becoming victims, reports USA Today. "Just use common sense," George Kirkham, a criminologist and former police officer based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, told the news outlet.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New details are emerging about a violent robbery on the doorstep of a Los Angeles home, in which the victims were beaten and robbed of jewelry and a "large amount of money." Police say the robbery happened on the evening of Nov. 26 at a home on Fuller Avenue in the Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles...The victims had walked home after dining at a restaurant in the area, police say. As they got home, several suspects wearing vests with the word "police" on them and displaying some type of badge showed up. At least one had...

Police are searching for two suspects wanted in a purported “follow-home robbery” which occurred in North Hollywood early Friday morning. The armed robbery took place at 2:50 a.m. in the 12000 block of Albers Street. Los Angeles police said the male suspects are believed to have followed the victims home from a club in Hollywood. The suspects used a handgun to rob the victims of cash and jewelry before speeding away in a white Toyota, police said. The victims were not hurt. One suspect was described as Black, between 20 and 30 years old, wearing a grey and black jacket...