Organized crime or gangs could be behind a $300K L.A. 'flash rob,' police say

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Organized crime or gangs could be behind a $300K L.A. 'flash rob,' police say
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The group that swarmed the Nordstrom in a Woodland Hills mall Saturday wore ski masks and fled with high-end handbags, clothing, and other easily re-sellable items.

Saturday and fled with high-end handbags and other items totaling about $300,000 could have been following“There’s no doubt that there’s a lot of ... criminal organizations behind this. Some of it involves gang members; some of it involves people that are what you would identify as professional retail thieves," Deputy Los Angeles Police Chief Alan Hamilton told NBC News on Sunday. “It runs the gamut, and there is a black market for purchasing these items, unfortunately. ...

“The way this type of crime typically works, a lot of the times they will already know where they’re going to offload these goods to,” he said. The same Nordstrom store was hit with a similar shoplifting incident in 2021, during Black Friday, Hamilton said.

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