With residential burglaries seemingly occurring nightly in the Los Angeles area, law enforcement officials planned to address the wave of crimes, which have caused despair in some communities favored by crooks.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, Sheriff Robert Luna, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell and Ventura County Sheriff Jim Fryhoff scheduled a news conference “to discuss recent arrests, filed cases and coordinated operations targeting residential burglaries across the region.”
Official numbers were not immediately available, but according to media reports, dozens of burglaries and robberies have taken place in recent months, many of them in posh or simply suburban areas of the San Fernando Valley.
Businesses on and around fashionable Melrose Avenue area have been targeted in overnight burglaries, with multiple targets being hit in a single night.
Several arrests have been made and in some cases suspects have been linked to theft rings based outside the U.S.