It sounded like chaos, but this is a citizen arrest after shoppers at one mall said enough is enough.
But Captain Garo Kuredjian was happy the shoppers got involved after three men walked into this Apple store at the Oaks Mall in Thousand Oaks and started snatching goods.
“These items are relatively small and very expensive so if they get away with a few things in their hands these are very easy to transfer into cash,” said Kuredjian, who’s with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
Sound familiar? That’s because something similar happened in Fresno. It’s a scene we have seen up and down the state.
In Fresno last month, four men took more than $30,000 worth of merchandise from an Apple Store in less than a minute.
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