Five female robbers steal safe containing $9,000 from California supermarket after two of the women distract staff
- California police are searching for a group of five women who stole $9,000
- Footage from the Produce World Market in Orange shows the criminal act
- The women are split up, three to distract staff and two others to steal the safe
- They then push the 80 pound safe covered in scarves out the front of the store
- Orange Police have asked anyone with information to come forward
A group of five brazen female robbers are being hunted by cops in California after stealing a safe containing more than $9,000.
Surveillance footage from the Produce World Market in Orange shows the women looking at fresh produce, before splitting up to pull off the heist.
In the video footage five women are seen splitting up, three to distract store employees and two who are seen heading to the back of the store to steal the safe.
The 80lb safe is seen being picked up by the two women, put into a shopping cart and covered in scarves.
California police are searching for a group of women who distracted staff members at a grocery store and stole a safe containing more than $9,000
The five women are seen looking at fresh produce in the store and appear to be speaking to one another
They then split up, three go on to distract staff members while two slip away to the back of the store
The women are then seen pushing the cart through the aisles and out the front of the grocery store to a car waiting outside.
Orange Police Department have urged anyone with information to come forward and released a statement saying the behavior was ‘disgusting.’
‘The audacity of these five criminals, preying on a family business, distracting employees, and stealing their safe which contained earnings is disgusting,’ 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 80lb safe with more than $9,000 in it and put it in a shopping cart
They are then seen taking the heavy safe, covering it in scarves and wheeling it out of the store
Surveillance footage from the Produce World Market in Orange shows the criminal act taking place
Orange Police Chief Dan Adams said he was shocked by the criminal act.
‘This is heartbreaking, especially during this holiday season,’ he said.
‘I hope these women are caught, jailed, and held to answer for their felonious crimes.’
According to neighborhoodscout.com Orange is 31 percent safer than other U.S. cities.
Over the past year police have dealt with 180 violent crimes, 2,402 property crimes, and 1,471 theft related crimes.
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