‘Flash-Mob’ Daytime Burglaries Strike Southern California Stores

Southern California has been hit by a series of daytime “flash-mob” burglaries targeting high-end merchandise in the past few weeks. Most suspects are still at large after stores including branches of Nordstrom and Yves Saint Laurent were looted.

Police officers search for a suspect in Los Angeles on May 7, 2018. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

A second daytime “flash-mob” burglary in Los Angeles County over the weekend that cost a luxury department $300,000 may be related to a similar burglary four days earlier in Glendale, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

At about 4 p.m. Aug. 12, more than 30 suspects wearing hoodies and ski masks, some carrying knives, swarmed the Nordstrom department store located in the Westfield Topanga Mall in Canoga Park, and stole about $300,000 worth of merchandise before running out of the store and entering several vehicles, according to police.