Police are currently pursuing at least four suspects involved in a series of convenience store robberies in Los Angeles County and Orange County.
According to KTLA, surveillance footage captured several of the robbery incidents. One of the robberies took place at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Bellflower at 1:45 am on Monday, May 20th.
The surveillance footage shows four male suspects entering the convenience store located at 9400 Artesia Boulevard and taking items from the store. Three of them jumped over the counter, while the other took cash from the cash register.
Investigators stated that the robbers fled in an orange SUV.
About an hour earlier, four suspects wearing ski masks broke into a 7-Eleven store on South Figueroa Street in Gardena.
Two of the suspects pretended to have a gun, while the other two stole cash from the cash register. Police reported that the suspects fled the scene in an orange Kia. It is currently unclear if the suspects were actually armed during the robbery.
On Sunday, around 11:30 pm, four suspects committed a similar robbery at a 7-Eleven store on East Slauson Avenue in Commerce.
Earlier that evening around 9:15 pm, in Norwalk, it is believed that five suspects broke into a 7-Eleven store on Alondra Boulevard and took the cash register before fleeing in a dark-colored SUV.
Around 10:30 pm that same night, a 7-Eleven store located on Orangethorpe Avenue in Orange County was also robbed.
At around 10 pm, several stores in Anaheim were robbed, including a 7-Eleven store on North East Street 700, followed shortly by a Shell gas station on East La Palma Avenue 3000. Next was a Circle K on East Riverdale Avenue 3800, which was robbed around 1 am on Monday.
In each robbery, multiple suspects entered the stores together, stole cash or the cash register, then fled in a dark-colored SUV.
Investigators believe that most of these robbery cases are related, as the license plate information matches the vehicles used by the suspects to escape from multiple locations.
Police are urging anyone with information to contact local law enforcement agencies.