Los Angeles police announce task force to address trend they call follow-home robberies, in which suspects target people who are wearing flashy jewelry or driving expensive cars before accosting them.
Investigators have spotted a trend of suspects targeting people wearing flashy jewelry or driving expensive cars and then robbing them, police sayLos Angeles police announced Tuesday a task force to buck a new trend they deemed follow-home robberies, in which suspects target people who are wearing flashy jewelry or driving expensive cars before accosting them.
The “Follow Home Task Force” will be comprised of 20 detectives from the department’s Robbery-Homicide Division and from other divisions, police said.On Tuesday, a homicide in the department’s Hollywood Division began as a follow-home robbery, officials said.“We’ve actually seen, what we believe this morning, is related to this, with this murder in Hollywood outside a restaurant,”.
In a Nov. 12 statement, police said there have been more than 110 incidents labeled follow-home robberies in 2021. Investigators identified “at least six different LA street gangs” affiliated with the criminal technique, police said. A department spokesperson could not be immediately reached Wednesday to get updated figures on follow-home robberies, overall robberies and updates on Tuesday’s slaying in Hollywood.
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