EGN NEWS DESK
On Tuesday, April 9, investigators with the CHP Organized Retail Crime Task Force arrested three ladies and one man after serving search warrants at 4 locations in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, the CHP introduced this week.
Investigators discovered that the 4 individuals stole merchandise together with Legos from numerous retail shops, and delivered the stolen merchandise to “fences” — places the place stolen items are bought.
Fences, in response to the CHP, will typically promote the stolen merchandise at swap meets, companies or by way of on-line retailers. Buyers typically don’t know that the merchandise they bought have been stolen.
The shops that have been hit are nonetheless calculating the whole losses from the stolen merchandise, however it’s estimated to be no less than $300,000. It wasn’t instantly identified which tales wherein cities the Legos have been stolen from.
The 4 suspects, who’re residents of Orange, Huntington Beach, Studio City and Brea, have been booked for costs associated to organized retail theft, grand theft and conspiracy to commit a criminal offense.
The CHP Organized Retail Crime Task Force arrested greater than 1,000 individuals in 2023 and recovered over 180,000 stolen gadgets, in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s workplace.
