The Organized Retail Crime Taskforce, formed earlier this week, has already made nearly a dozen arrests in connection with a string of 'flash mob' robberies across Southern California.
"Upon the inception of the ORCT, detectives assumed investigative responsibility of nine cases involving organized retail crimes throughout the city of Los Angeles," the LAPD said. "Many of these retail theft cases have adopted linkage to other retail crimes which occurred in neighboring cities."
As of Wednesday, ORCT personnel had made 11 robbery arrests "which were directly related to four of the nine cases the ORCT assumed investigative responsibility for," the LAPD reported.Versace store at Beverly Center, 8500 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles;Nordstrom at Topanga Mall, 6600 Topanga Canyon Blvd.
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