Two Los Angeles Police Department officers actively chose to ignore a robbery-in-progress call to track down a rare Pokémon. They have since been fired from the department.
Every seasoned gamer knows that the loveable Snorlax is one of the most difficult monsters to hunt and capture in the mobile game Pokémon GO. Two Los Angeles Police Department officers were certainly aware of that when they spotted one on their phones—and actively chose to ignore a robbery-in-progress call to track it down.
According to court records, Lozano and Mitchell were working a foot beat on the day of the April 2017 robbery, reported from a shopping mall in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood. A department captain, making his way to the “chaotic” scene at the Macy’s store in Crenshaw Mall, noticed another police vehicle idling in an alley nearby, and then peeling away.
Mitchell replied that it had been too noisy in the area to hear their radios, blaming “a lot of music” for their lack of action. Gomez advised them, next time, to move to a quieter spot. Five minutes after they decided to “screw it,” Mitchell told Lozano that he had spotted a Snorlax on his phone that had “popped up” at an intersection a short distance away.
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