A Chicago suburbs' Louis Vuitton store was cleaned out overnight of over $120,000 of merchandise and a camera caught the thief.
Or in this case, the many, many thieves.
Oak Brook, Illinois around 3:30 pm was shocked when 14 people walked into the store in the middle of the day and completely ransacked it, leaving a husk of empty shelves in their wake after making off with tons of product.
$100k in handbags 👜 stolen at a Louis Vuitton store near Chicago! pic.twitter.com/jaElFgbkWO
— Asian Crime Report (@activeasian) November 19, 2021
Black Friday @ Louis Vuitton #Chicago
pic.twitter.com/Rgn1ZWzHoQ
— Henry 🎱 (@HenryVlII) November 20, 2021
14 people in Chicago pull off a heist at a Louis Vuitton store in under a minute pic.twitter.com/N0XkABxxAP
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) November 20, 2021
Flash robs are a thing now. 80 people flash robbed the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek and 14 people flash robbed a Louis Vuitton in Chicago. More than $100,000 worth of merchandise stolen. The People have had it. I'm not saying I'm rooting for it. But what did the rich expect?
— FakeJoeBiden (@fake_biden) November 22, 2021
This is the second coordinated attack on a Louis Vuitton store in the United States in the last week.
San Francisco's Union Square location was also attacked and ransacked by robbers, who stole everything in the store, and proceeded into waiting cars with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of handbags.
we need a word beside “looting" for these incidents. clearly a planned event where a few dozen people do a smash and grab, assault employees etc. steal a bunch of stuff. that's robbery. https://t.co/mZQFkpCgQl
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 22, 2021
Louis Vuitton San Francisco, Union square got cleared out!! pic.twitter.com/7Sz6rlRo8n
— Da Juan (@CARLITOSGUEY) November 20, 2021
No injured bystanders. The retailer is insured on their overpriced items. I'm good.
— Eddie.A.GolfSport (@EAGolfSport1) November 20, 2021
I can never understand the appeal of luxury bags... they're not made of gold!
Why pay more than the price of actual gold for one of these!
— Dragonfly (@7blue_dragonfly) November 20, 2021
In the Chicago case, police said the perpetrators also escaped into three separate cars that were waiting for them.
"We are still developing and working several leads to identify the offenders involved in our incident," Oak Brook police said, although no evidence has yet surfaced leading to the arrest of any of these people.
Major police operation outside of the Northbrook Court mall in the Chicago suburbs where a Louis Vuitton has been hit by looters several times in the past few weeks.
Police have erected a security tower outside of the mall for enhanced security due to the looting events. pic.twitter.com/53RdbOe8rs
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) November 20, 2021
Police are also stationed out front of the Louis Vuitton store in the Northbrook Court mall located in the Chicago suburbs that has had repeated looting incidents over the last several weeks. pic.twitter.com/jl4TEtI2Xq
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) November 20, 2021
So happy for them ❤️ https://t.co/lZby7tYkUS
— Chanel (NOT) #5 (@Chanelsimone_) November 20, 2021
Love to see it 😂 https://t.co/9lrWQsNoqe
— Vahid Basic Laflare (@Vladimir_Basic) November 20, 2021
With the past year of civil unrest, police nationwide are putting on high alert for retail locations as we approach Black Friday, the ultimate shopping day of the calendar year, which often results in chaos even without crime.
No further reports of looting and theft have been reported in Oak Brook.