

A Long Beach-area store was the latest location to be struck by a flash mob robbery, in which a group of thieves enter a business, grab whatever valuable items they can carry and simply walk out with them.
A Reddit user posted a video apparently taken Sunday at the Home Depot on Spring Street in Signal Hill. It shows about a half dozen people, mostly wearing black or gray hoodies and some with dark face masks, loading boxes that appear to be red Milwaukee brand power tools into carts or their arms and leaving the store; two employees in orange aprons can be seen standing nearby, seemingly not sure how to respond.
Signal Hill Police Department Lt. Kelli Crigler confirmed via email on Monday that officers were dispatched to the store around 6:03 p.m. Sunday and took a report of a robbery that involved “approximately seven unknown males, who stole approximately $5,000 worth of power tools.”