Bizarre video shows group of five female robbers stealing safe containing $9,000
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Five female thieves steal a safe containing $9,000 from the California supermarket after two of the women distracted the staff
- California police search for group of five women who stole $9,000
- Images of the Produce World Market in Orange show the criminal act
- The women split up, three to distract the staff and another two to rob the safe.
- Then they push the scarf-draped 80-pound safe through the front of the store.
- Orange police have asked anyone with information to come forward.
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A group of five brazen thieves are being hunted by cops in California after robbing a safe containing more than $9,000.
Surveillance footage from Produce World Market in Orange shows the women looking at fresh produce, before splitting up to carry out the heist.
In the video, five women are seen splitting up, three to distract store employees and two heading to the back of the store to rob the safe.
The two women are seen to lift the 80-pound safe, place it in a shopping cart, and cover it with scarves.
California police are searching for a group of women who distracted staff members at a grocery store and robbed a safe containing more than $9,000.
The five women are seen looking at fresh produce in the store and appear to be talking to each other.
They then split up, three distracting the staff members while two sneak to the back of the store.
The women are then seen pushing the cart down the aisles and out the front of the grocery store to a car waiting outside.
The Orange Police Department urged anyone with information to come forward and issued a statement saying the behavior was “disgusting.”
“The audacity of these five criminals, taking advantage of a family business, distracting employees and robbing their safe containing profits is sickening,” the statement read.
“Please help the Orange Police Department locate these five women so they can be brought to justice for this repulsive act.”
While in the back of the store, two women lifted the 80-pound safe containing more than $9,000 and put it in a shopping cart.
They are then seen taking the heavy safe, covering it with scarves, and carrying it out of the store.
Surveillance footage from the Produce World Market in Orange shows the criminal act.
Orange Police Chief Dan Adams said he was shocked by the criminal act.
“This is heartbreaking, especially during this Christmas season,” he said.
“I hope these women are caught, jailed and held accountable for their criminal crimes.”
According to Neighborhoodscout.com, Orange is 31 percent safer than other US cities.
Over the past year, police have dealt with 180 violent crimes, 2,402 property crimes, and 1,471 robbery-related crimes.