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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5081816" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/583142-apple-nordstrom-stores-hit-in-latest-smash-and-grab-robberies[/URL]&quot;An Apple and Nordstrom were robbed on Wednesday in California, the latest in a string of smash-and-grab robberies that have spurred an increasingly hard-line response from officials.The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Nordstrom was robbed by five people on Wednesday evening, The Associated Press <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-grab-run-theft-hits-southern-california-nordstrom-81388101" target="_blank">reported</a>, with the robbers taking seven to eight expensive purses.The robbers pepper-sprayed a security guard at Westfield Topanga Mall before fleeing the scene in a car. The security guard was treated at the scene as police and ambulances arrived, but no arrests were made.An Apple store in Santa Rosa was also robbed on Wednesday of $20,000 in merchandise, according to the police.&quot;In a brazen daytime burglary in front of customers and staff, the suspects grabbed over $20,000 worth of merchandise from the store and fled the area in an unknown vehicle,&quot; Santa Rosa police said in a statement.The two robberies are the latest in a string of organized retail theft in California that law enforcement agencies are struggling to contain.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5081816, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/583142-apple-nordstrom-stores-hit-in-latest-smash-and-grab-robberies[/URL] "An Apple and Nordstrom were robbed on Wednesday in California, the latest in a string of smash-and-grab robberies that have spurred an increasingly hard-line response from officials. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Nordstrom was robbed by five people on Wednesday evening, The Associated Press [URL='https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-grab-run-theft-hits-southern-california-nordstrom-81388101']reported[/URL], with the robbers taking seven to eight expensive purses. The robbers pepper-sprayed a security guard at Westfield Topanga Mall before fleeing the scene in a car. The security guard was treated at the scene as police and ambulances arrived, but no arrests were made. An Apple store in Santa Rosa was also robbed on Wednesday of $20,000 in merchandise, according to the police. [B]"In a brazen daytime burglary in front of customers and staff[/B], the suspects grabbed over $20,000 worth of merchandise from the store and fled the area in an unknown vehicle," Santa Rosa police said in a statement. The two robberies are the latest in a string of organized retail theft in California that law enforcement agencies are struggling to contain." [/QUOTE]

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