Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives investigating a sequence of strong-arm robberies throughout which hundreds of California Lottery Scratchers video games had been stolen from comfort shops caught a break final week.
On April 11, detectives noticed a automobile linked to 44 robberies over a nine-week stretch parked exterior a 7-Eleven in Arlington Heights, a sheriff’s spokesperson mentioned Thursday.
There, detectives watched a four-person crew suspected within the thefts pilfer extra Scratchers. This time, nonetheless, the group’s luck ran out, the Sheriff’s Division mentioned Wednesday when it introduced the arrests of the 4.
The Sheriff’s Division mentioned three adults and one juvenile had been booked on suspicion of theft. The adults had been arraigned Monday, and every are being held in lieu of $100,000 bail. The minor was transported to Los Padrinos Juvenile Corridor, the place he was being held. No date was launched for the juvenile’s arraignment.
The Sheriff’s Division didn’t launch the names of the three adults for worry of jeopardizing an ongoing investigation, a division spokesperson mentioned. The division doesn’t launch the names of juvenile suspects.
The entire loss from the robberies was greater than $250,000, with $90,000 of that whole coming via cashed stolen Scratchers.
Representatives from 7-Eleven didn’t reply to an electronic mail concerning retailer security.
The Sheriff’s Division launched a video of the incident.
A suspect seems to leap over-the-counter and start to achieve for the drawers containing California Lotto tickets.
A close-by attendant, who was sitting on a packing crate in entrance of the money register, jumps off and backpedals towards the nook of the shop, the place there look like two different workers.
The primary assailant pulls out the drawers and tosses them to a different individual on the opposite facet of the counter.
The duo take 5 containers filled with Scratchers whereas forsaking a portion of a sixth one. The Sheriff’s Division mentioned greater than $3,000 price of tickets was taken.
In whole, the foursome is suspected of hitting 42 7-Eleven areas and two Circle Ks throughout Los Angeles County, with nearly all of exercise happening inside town of Los Angeles, based on the sheriff’s spokesperson.
