A shoplifting incident involving 80 suspects accused of grabbing items and rushing out of a California store in under a minute is among the worst mass scale 'smash-and-grabs' seen, two longtime police officers say.
that a jewelry store in Southland Mall in Hayward, California, was targeted Sunday afternoon by about nine people who used hammers to smash cases before they fled. Police in Hayward and Walnut Creek, which is about 30 miles northeast, didn’t return requests for comment Monday about whether the incidents might be connected.in San Francisco because of organized retail theft.
“Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average” despite large increases in security, Walgreens spokesperson Phil Caruso said in a statement at the time. In an incident that seemed particularly shocking in San Francisco, a group of shoplifters in July was recorded onin Union Square lugging “several tens of thousands of dollars” in stolen merchandise, police said.
The same month, city leaders pushed back against critics who argued that the shoplifting incidents were out of control. , which, according to police data, showed that overall thefts were down by 9 percent in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year.Although the thefts have been clustered in California, they have also occurred elsewhere.
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