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  • Alarming rise in follow-home robberies in upscale L.A. prompts police crackdown

    11/23/2021 7:27:03 PM PST · by blueplum · 39 replies
    LA Times via msn ^ | 23 November 2021 | Richard Winton
    Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore announced Tuesday he is setting up a task force to apprehend follow-home robbers, saying the department has not seen violent hold-ups "like this in decades." The troubling trend, which has targeted celebrities and upscale restaurants in recent months, turned deadly in the predawn hours Tuesday when a man was gunned down during an attempted robbery outside Bossa Nova restaurant in Hollywood. The department is already investigating at least 133 such robberies from areas including the Sunset Strip, Melrose Avenue, the Jewelry District and Westside shopping areas. In the latest incident, a man was sitting...