Walnut Creek Macy’s: Hammer-wielding looters smash jewelry scenarios, seize watches
WALNUT CREEK — Hammer-wielding looters smashed jewelry conditions at Macy’s in Walnut Creek through early morning open hours, police explained, terrifying customers and staff members prior to fleeing with significant-close watches.
No a single was injured all through the robbery that commenced at 10:48 a.m. when three men in hooded sweatshirts and masks entered the Macy’s at Broadway Plaza. They fled in an older product white Honda sedan, according to the Walnut Creek Police Department.
The robbery is the most current “smash and grab” that has focused Broadway Plaza and other Bay Area vendors. In November, in the course of the holiday getaway purchasing season, upwards of 80 robbers — in a prepared and arranged melee — ransacked the Nordstrom retailer just prior to 9 p.m. although the store was still open. Two personnel were being hurt and a person was pepper-sprayed. Three individuals were arrested.
The evening in advance of, dozens of persons in the same way looted the Louis Vuitton shop in San Francisco’s Union Sq.. The Sunvalley Procuring Center in Harmony was also strike by 9 suspects.
In May 2020, in the midst of the protests in excess of George Floyd’s murder, a lady was shot when looters focused a quantity of shops at Broadway Plaza. Nine folks were being billed in that circumstance.
On Saturday, Macy’s officials were being nonetheless inventorying the loss and approximated destruction.
