Massive Coordinated Robbery With Over 80 People Storm Nordstrom In Bay Area

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The thefts are believed to be part of sophisticated criminal networks that recruit mainly young people to steal merchandise in stores throughout the country then sell it in online marketplaces. The thefts are ratcheting up as the holiday shopping season gets underway, experts and officials said.

The flash mobs are usually organized by local people who recruit their crews and send them to steal specific merchandise requested by criminal organizations throughout the country, Dugan said.

Those who do the stealing get paid between $500 and $1,000 to take as much as they can and bring it back to organizers who ship it to other parts of the country.

“Crew bosses organize them, they’ll give him the crowbars, and in some cases even rent them cars, or provide them with escape routes or a list of products to actually go out and steal. It looks very chaotic but it’s actually very well organized,” Dugan said.

Most of the flash mob robberies had been happening in stores near highways in suburbs where police response can be slower. But last year, the packs of robbers took advantage of protests following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and ransacked stores in several cities, including San Francisco, Dugan said.

“It was meant to look like looting, but it really wasn’t. It’s a criminal entity employing other people to steal for them so they can profit by selling it online,” he said.
 

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I don’t care about the theft because fukk corporations but assaulting workers is bullshyt and you need to go straight to prison for that shyt.
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theres no amount of police resources that can respond to a flash mob made up of dozens of people that commits a crime in less than 60 seconds.

they seem to have caught some people blocks away from the scene of the crime.

they could fund the police with hundreds of millions of dollars but they still can't prevent this type of crime. the judicial system can dole out harsh sentences to thwart it but in the end, these people need jobs that they can afford to live on. thats the incentive to stop committing these crimes.
 

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Given that there had to be early recon involved, my first move would be to look at the wireless access points and see what devicss got assigned a IP on the day/time of the robbery and see if that same devices SIM/IEMI appears before then
 
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