I have been covering the surge in bold daytime robberies in California, exacerbated by closing prisons and criminal-supporting sentencing policies.
The luck seems to have run out for one band of Christmas-time robbers who encountered Marine recruiters from a nearby military recruitment center at the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California.
The robbery happened Tuesday, at a jewelry store in the mall. According to Torrance police, four people wearing hoodies and covering their faces used hammers to smash the glass of the display cases and grab as much jewelry as they could.
Two of the suspects were able to escape, but the other two were taken to the ground by Marine recruiters and bystanders who heard the robbery unfold, and were able to detain the two suspects, both minors, until police were able to get there.
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