A five-year FBI report shows shoplifting incidents related to flash mob groups are responsible for more than $8 million in ...

It is a scene that has become a staple of viral social media clips: a swarm of people rushes into a retail store, grabs ...

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wisconsin -- A Wisconsin North Face store was rushed by a group of ten people who ransacked the store in what police are describing as a "flash mob." On July 1, 2019, an estimated ...

WATTS, LOS ANGELES -- About $12,000 in merchandise was stolen in a brazen flash mob robbery at a Nike store in Los Angeles Sunday, according to police. The LAPD says 17 people ransacked the store just ...

Flash mob robbery of Lincoln Heights convenience … News / Aug 1, 2025 / 10:18 PM PDT Surveillance video captured a mob of young bicyclists ransacking a gas station convenience store in L.A.’s Lincoln ...

Law enforcement leaders in the metro are sounding an alarm about a scary new trend in crime. They say so-called flash mobs are sneaking into apartment buildings at night, taking over community rooms ...

Common police strategy for preventing flash mobs has been tightening of curfews. Aug. 27, 2011— -- When a massive flash mob rampaged outside the Wisconsin State Fair injuring 11 fairgoers on Aug.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Police in the Central Valley are on the lookout for flash mob retail thieves as they gear up to keep shoppers safe this holiday season. The 24th year of Operation Christmas ...