Lighting fireworks in the mall wasn't a New Year's Eve prank. It was an $11,000 plan.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article193208759.html#storylink=cpy
Whoever set off the fireworks in Sawgrass Mills Sunday afternoon, sending people hiding in stock rooms and racing from the mall, planned more than malevolent fun, Sunrise police say.
They planned (successfully) to steal an $11,400 Rolex.
Surveillance video released by Sunrise police shows a man trying on the Rolex at the Sawgrass Mills Zales store on New Year's Eve. When the fireworks go off outside the store in the mall, Zales workers scramble for cover deeper in the store while the "shopper" scrams from the store with the Rolex still on his wrist. ...
Homeless man uses bomb-threat trick to steal booze in Laguna Niguel
http://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/05/homeless-man-uses-bomb-threat-trick-to-steal-booze-in-laguna-niguel/
Shoppers fled a Smart & Final when a homeless man hijacked the public-address system to make an ominous announcement, authorities said on Friday.
"He said there was a bomb threat and requested that customers exit from the front of the store," sheriff's Lt. Wayne Rehnelt said.
After the threat, made at just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 4, worried shoppers gathered outside the store in the 3000 block Crown Valley Parkway.
In the confusion, the suspect grabbed alcohol and fled on foot.
Deputies searched the store but no explosives were found. They also reviewed the store's surveillance video and identified the suspect as a known transient, Rehnelt said. ...
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