Local Police Aim To Stop Smash And Grabs Amid Holiday Shopping Season

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ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — Stopping the swarm of smash and grabs arsenic vacation shoppers statesman their buying spree, section constabulary person a program to support criminals out.

You’ve seen them successful action: gangs of thieves going into high-end stores grabbing what they tin and making a tally for it. There’s a beefed-up effort to halt them earlier they start.

We’re astatine the cusp of craziness, the commencement of what’s expected to beryllium the busiest buying clip of twelvemonth astatine the Roseville Galleria.

“There’s decidedly thousands of radical who volition travel in,” said galleria General Manager Jeff Richardson.

And arsenic they travel in, there’s an added information of who other mightiness due to the fact that the promenade features a fig of luxury marque stores.

Lately, immoderate of these marque stores person been successful the bullseye of brazen smash and grabs and wide robberies — from high-end handbags to golden and metallic jewelry.

With millions of dollars worthy of merchandise connected display, constabulary admit it makes an charismatic people for thieves.

“This is an progressively alarming trend,” said Rob Baquera, a spokesperson for the Roseville Police Department.

Some stores person stationed equipped guards retired front, and others bounds the fig of customers allowed inside.

Now that’s what businesses are doing, but what are Roseville constabulary doing to forestall organized retail theft?

“Adding other officers connected the streets successful marked vehicles, doing patrols astir our large retail centers and our tiny ma and popular centers including undercover officers,” Baquera said.

The promenade besides has a high-profile mode to saddle up information this vacation season.

“We person the Placer County Mounted Sheriff’s Patrol truthful you tin travel retired and spot the sheriff’s connected the horses,” Richardson said.

So are customers present disquieted astir the question of Bay Area crimes seeping into suburbia? Not really.

“I effort to beryllium alert astir maine but it doesn’t scare maine away,” 1 shopper said.

“It decidedly looks crazy,” different shopper said. “I didn’t see it would beryllium happening astir here.”

And due to the fact that these crooks often enactment on freeway corridors and transverse region lines, Gov. Gavin Newsom is present directing the California Highway Patrol to summation patrols astir malls.

So section cops volition person immoderate institution to support unwanted institution out.

“We cognize having freeway entree and an easy, perceived getaway is thing these groups look for,” Baquera said.

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It’s not conscionable Roseville stepping up, constabulary successful Sacramento accidental they’ll person other officers patrolling buying areas arsenic well.