Dec. 3 (UPI) --A five-year FBI report shows shoplifting incidents related to flash mob groups are responsible for more than $8 million in stolen goods. On Wednesday, the uniform crime reporting unit ...

Employees could only watch as thieves sprinted out of the store with thousands of dollars of merchandise on the busiest shopping day of the year. On Black Friday in 2021, so-called “flash mobs” ...

Montgomery County police say 17 people have been charged in a flash mob theft of a Germantown convenience store. A group of 25 young people stormed the 7-Eleven at 13001 Wisteria Drive shortly before ...

CENTURY CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Several recent flash mob robberies have local high-end stores on alert. Dozens of masked suspects have run out of stores in Century City, Canoga Park, Glendale and ...

The cellphone footage isn’t very long — it lasts only about 30 seconds — but what it lacks in length, it more than makes up for with its terrifying mise-en-scène. About 30 masked robbers, most garbed ...

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