California smash-and-grab at Macy’s occurs at same mall where dozens of looters robbed Nordstrom last year

Authorities in California are investigating a smash-and-get robbery at a Macy’s in Walnut Creek Saturday early morning right after three suspects stole significant-finish watches before fleeing the scene, officers mentioned. 

The Walnut Creek Law enforcement Section stated “three black male adult suspects” entered the shop found in the Broadway Plaza purchasing center at close to 10:48 a.m., when they began “smashing jewellery show conditions with hammers.”

The suspects, all carrying hoods and masks to hinder identifying factors, stole the valuables and fled the scene.

Past 12 months, dozens of suspects robbed the Broadway Plaza Nordstrom in what witnesses described as a brazen theft like anything “out of a movie.”  

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 21: A look at of Macy’s exterior on December 21, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Image by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Photographs)
(Picture by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Photos)

The suspects in Saturday’s robbery had been witnessed fleeing in a white more mature design 4-door Honda sedan, mentioned WCPD PIO Lieutenant Holley Connors.

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Walnut Creek Law enforcement stated no Macy’s staff members or buyers were harmed in the course of the incident.

“Macy’s is still inventorying the loss and approximated value to repair the damages,” Conners additional.

Los Angeles, CA – December 02:  Pictures of latest smash and grabs throughout a news conference to announce arrests in link with current smash-and-get robberies, and to give protection steps and prevention tips at the LAPD Headquarters in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 2, 2021. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Team/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Photographs)
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The WCPD is continuing to look into the incident and added particulars had been not delivered.

Broadway Plaza is situated in Walnut Creek’s downtown location and incorporates many increased-conclusion outlets, like the Nordstrom robbed late final yr.

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Between 50 and 80 looters entered the keep just ahead of 9 p.m. in late November when they grabbed merchandise and fled, police stated.

Armed suspects keep up a Shell Gasoline Station in Culver Town, California on June 11, 2022. 
( Culver Town Police Office)

Witnesses described the chaotic theft as “insane.” 

California has endured a recent plague of smash-and-get robberies including…

…several smash-and-grabber robbers rushed into a Princess Bride Diamonds jewelry keep, located in Bella Terra shopping mall in Huntington Seashore in advance of staff physically fought off the would-be intruders.

…robbers broke screen circumstances with hammers at a Kay Jewelers in the Brea Mall, in the vicinity of downtown Los Angeles, in advance of stealing merchandise and fleeing.

…thieves broke into the “Heart of Gold” jewellery keep in San Jose before strolling out with more than $100,000 well worth of goods. 

…smash-and-get robbers built off with $5 million in stolen products from a Beverly Hills jewellery retail outlet, Luxury Jewels, just after getting into the shop in broad daylight with sledgehammers. 

…a trio of brazen robbers stole from a Forever 21 at the Los Cerritos Middle in Los Angeles and then a Sephora shop in the very same purchasing center.

Some citizens have attributed robberies like these to liberal procedures enacted by district lawyers.

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District Lawyer Diane Becton of Contra Costa County, which includes Walnut Creek, for instance, has instructed her individual prosecutors to contemplate looters’ “desires” in theft situations.

1 Bay Area jewelry keep operator took issues into his very own hands and stopped would-be smash-and-seize robbers from using any goods.
(Usman Bhatti)

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Becton also advised investigators to identify no matter if “the theft was fully commited for economical achieve or private need to have” just before charging them, local information outlet East County Now documented.

Anybody with data on the Walnut Creek criminal offense is inspired to get in touch with the WCPD at 925-943-5865.