The Bottega Veneta store in LA's trendy Beverly Grove shopping district saw a large group invade the store at 5:21 p.m. and snatch pricey merchandise before one robber pepper-sprayed an innocent person in the face, the LA Police Department reported.
At the Home Deport, in Lakewood, eight people made their way into the home improvement chain at 7:55 p.m. and stole sledgehammers, wrenches, and hammers. The looters threatened customers and then fled in 10 separate getaway cars.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department told CBS that the Home Deport robbery was especially troubling because the tools stolen could likely be used to rob more stores in the area.
Sheriff's deputies added that an entire section of sledgehammers was cleared out at the Home Depot, hammers similar to those that gangs of thieves have been known to use to smash glass displays and nab jewelry and other high-end products, such as iPhones.
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Currently, both the Home Depot and Bottega Veneta incidents are under investigation.
NBC reported that the Bottega Veneta store also issued a statement saying it would limit the number of customers allowed inside its store.
The robberies come as Newsom, former mayor to San Francisco - where the thefts have been most prominent - promised to end the 'smash and grabs' to avoid any more damage to California stores ahead of Black Friday.
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The governor on Monday pledged to provide an 'exponential level of support in the next state budget to help cities combat retail theft rings.
Newsom announced that his office met with retailers last week who asked for more police patrols.
'You will see substantially more starting today, in and around areas that are highly trafficked and coming into the holiday season Black Friday in shopping malls,' he stated.
On Wednesday, four young men, assumed by police to be between the ages of 14 and 18, entered and grabbed $20,000 worth of merchandise from a Santa Rosa Apple store before fleeing in what authorities called a 'brazen daytime burglary' in broad daylight.
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A detective from the Santa Rosa Police Department reported that they weren’t notified about the theft until 10 minutes after it occurred due to an Apple in-house protocol.
In the last week, thieves have made off with tens of thousands of dollars in luxury goods, amid soft misdemeanor theft laws in the Democrat-run state.
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