Teenage bands steal $ 250,000 in luxury bags in less than a month
Palo Alto, California. – Por segunda ocasión en menos de un mes, una banda de adolescentes utilizó el mismo modus operandi para saquear una tienda de lujo y escapar con decenas de bolsas de diseñador valuadas en miles de dólares.
In a coordinated manner, the group composed of 11 men and women broke into a branch of Louis Vuitton at the Stanford Shopping Center, located on the 180s of El Camino Real, and then fleeing with 36 handbags with a cost above $ 100,000.
Palo Alto Police indicated that the suspects were not armed or threatened the clients or workers of the store.The road occurred on June 7 around 5:30 pm.
According to the investigation, the band of thieves left the store "very fast, ran through the mall and escaped in five cars before the police arrived".During the escape, a witness managed to capture a photograph of one of the suspects.
The authorities said that the suspects were described by witnesses as men and women of the black race, possibly teenagers or young people between 20 and 25 years old.Everyone had masks that made it difficult to identify them by some particular sign.
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1:08The vehicles in which they fled with a gray lexus sedan, an infinity SUV truck gray, and white sedan sedan, a four -door black sedani sedan and a deep red sedan of two doors, the police added.
The theft was recorded in the security cameras of the Louis Vuitton branch, but the detectives indicated that at the moment the surveillance videos will not make public.
The Palo Alto Police does not rule out that the group is linked to other similar robberies, so it works with other agencies of the order in the Bay area sharing information about the case.
Just last May 19, a group of 10 suspect made a similar bull at the Neiman Marcus department store, located in the same shopping center.The button of that robbery was 43 handbags with an approximate value of $ 150,000.
Although it was the same modus operandi, the researchers stressed that the vehicles in which the suspects fled are different.In the theft of a few weeks ago, the thieves escaped in a white Ford Mustang, an infiniti -dark blue four -door sedan and an infiniti sediti also four doors, but white color.
Any person who has information about these cases can call (650) 329-2413 or send an anonymous text message at (650) 383-8984.
