Police said these burglaries caused thousands of dollars in damage and lost merchandise.
Boarded-up windows seen at Southcenter Mall on Nov. 25TUKWILA, Wash. — Southcenter Mall in Tukwila was full of shoppers, and the parking lot was jammed with cars for Black Friday — a full house, despite the amount of crime the mall has seen in just the last week.
Just before 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving, a vehicle was stolen from a business at the mall. The suspects fled the scene in two vehicles: the one they arrived in and the one they had just stolen. They then proceeded one block north, where they used the stolen vehicle to ram the entrance of another business. They successfully gained entry to the building and stole merchandise once inside.
“It has become common knowledge amongst criminals in the region that officers cannot pursue them if the crime doesn’t rise to meet the new standards for a pursuit,” reads a
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