Flash mob thefts terrorize US

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 26, 2021 12:05 am

NEW YORK: US retailers are adding security and locking up goods after flash mob heists involving dozens of thieves at once stunned luxury stores in the San Francisco area and beyond, as the holiday shopping season opens.

In the most shocking of recent thefts, around 80 masked people in 25 cars raided a high-end Nordstrom department store in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco on Saturday, plundering its first-floor luxury goods counters in just a few minutes before fleeing.

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