California police are investigating a series of trawls registered in recent days at stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, mainly from the sale of luxury goods.
The most striking case was in Walnut Creek, where, according to information from Reuters, around 80 people broke into a Nordstrom store on Saturday night (20). Wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars and weapons, they assaulted two workers and sprayed pepper spray on another.
Taking everything they could carry, they fled in several cars parked outside. At the site, three men, aged between 18 and 32, were arrested.
According to the SFGate portal, the most recent robberies took place on Sunday night (21). Thieves took goods from a Lululemon store (which sells sportswear, mainly for yoga) at a mall in San José, and another group, wielding hammers, broke into a jewelry store in Hayward.
On Friday, San Francisco police arrested eight suspects (two women and six men) after several burglaries and robberies at Union Square stores, including a unit of Louis Vuitton.
The incident that opened the series of trawls occurred last Monday (15): according to witnesses, nine thieves ransacked a jewelry store in Concord and threatened with hammers officials who tried to intervene. The suspects fled before the police arrived at the scene.
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