Valley retailers are taking action after a string of robberies at stores across the state.
In a blitz operation with different teams, the California Highway Patrol's organized retail crime task force arrested 51 suspects and recovered 697 assets with a nearly $58,000 value, including items at the Walmart on Shaw and Brawley.
Officer Adrian Lopez with CHP says they are starting to see this type of theft more across the region. Monday, a group stealing hundreds of dollars of items from Kohl's at Sierra vista mall in Clovis started a fire, and Saturday, around 20 to 30 people robbed Nordstrom in Southern California. "What we're seeing these large scale group smash and grabs, they would be subject to a felony, so the consequences are higher, the amount of custody times that they can get is higher, and they will have a prior felony, which means if they are rested again, and charged again, they can be sentenced more heavily," said Bonakdar.
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