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The smash-and-grab robberies plaguing San Francisco and Los Angeles spread to smaller cities in the state and across the country to Chicago and Minneapolis over the holiday weekend, with organized "flash mobs" ransacking stores and making off with merchandise worth thousands.
A Home Depot in California was robbed on Friday night, authorities said. The suspects entered the store and stole hundreds worth of tools before
Video footage of robbers at a Louis Vuitton store in Chicago earlier this month. Chicago Police Department Three stores in Chicago's Wicker Park
A security guard patrols the front entrance of Nordstrom on Tuesday after an organized group of thieves attempted a smash-and-grab robbery late Monday
Mobs of robbers have made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in a span of just a few minutes.