Groups of looters ransacked shopping centers and retailers around the country throughout Thanksgiving week following last weekend’s full-fledged stealing bonanza in California’s Bay Area.
A Sunglass Hut at the Del Monte shopping center in Monterey, California, was hit by a group of four on Friday, who stole an estimated $30,000 in sunglasses, police confirmed to KSBW.
Store Manager Shauna Weirich said the bandits were in and out within two minutes.
“They just knew what to do,” she said per KSBW. “No rhyme or reason for it they just knew what to do, when to do it and how to get the most out of what they were doing.”
The same day, a group of eight between the ages of 15 and 20, stole crowbars, hammers, and other tools from a Lakewood, California, Home Depot, according to Fox 11, citing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. They made off with an estimated $400 in tools.
“We tried to stop them,” Home Depot employee Luis Romo told FOX 11. “We closed the front entrance and they put their sledgehammers up and whoever got in the way, they were going to hurt them.”
Fox 11 reports:
The suspects all fled the store in getaway vehicles parked outside. According to the sheriff’s department, one of the getaway vehicles was a red Mercedes Benz with severe damage to the front. The department says possibly 10 vehicles were involved.Crimes were not isolated to the Golden State. Two mobs of looters ransacked multiple Best Buys in metro Minnesota on Friday night, according to the Star Tribune.
Around 9 p.m. Friday, officers with the Beverly Hills Police Department spotted several vehicles with no license plates near Beverly Dr. and Dayton Way. Thy [sic] conducted a traffic stop on one of the vehicles; the four occupants were taken into custody.
They were booked at the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station and items among the alleged stolen property were recovered, Lakewood city officials said Saturday.
Both of the ransackings took place shortly after 8:00 p.m. Police say a mob of 20 to 30 people rampaged through the Burnsville Best Buy, while a group of ten to 12 that included both juveniles and adults hit the Maplewood store, according to the Star Tribune.
No injuries were reported, and no one was arrested as of Saturday.
More looting was documented in the midwest on Black Friday. Three men reportedly waltzed into a Chicago Foot Locker, filled trash bags with merchandise, and fled the area, according to NBC Chicago, citing a WBBM-TV report.
Though Black Friday brought numerous group thefts throughout the country, looting had been prevalent throughout the days leading up to Black Friday.
On Wednesday, a group of thieves reportedly stole designer handbags from a Nordstrom in the Westfield Topanga mall in Canoga Park in Los Angeles, according to Fox 11. The looters made off with an estimated...
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6 comments:
Spontaneous Marxism.
Black Friday 100% off this will continue as long as Dems are in power and tie the hands of police
Perhaps it is time that some state legislatures pass laws that allow use of deadly force to protect property.
Store managers need to start slashing the tires of cars parked in front. Replacing the tires of honest customers has to be cheaper than giving up all this merchandise.
Large corporate chains (the ones getting looted) will never use deadly force. They'd rather go out of business or switch to online sales. Gee I wonder who benefits from all this looting? Amazon and Wal Mart? Naaaa.
The alternative is to keep everything behind locked cages and have an employee hand you the product after you pay for it. Which of course drives up prices. That's probably cheaper than shooting looters, though less fun. :-)
As I said, in the meantime, vigilantes should be slashing the tires of these (stolen) getaway vehicles when parked in front of a store. That would buy management, security, and police time to return the merchandise to the shelves, because none of these looters wants to flee on foot with 50 lbs of hardware, purses or sunglasses.
They aren't selling their goods. This is just a means of getting rid of stock. I wonder if insurance companies are aware. Perhaps they are complicit?
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