Saturday, May 21, 2011

Teen ‘flash mob’ robberies on Michigan Avenue on the rise

At a mall outside Milwaukee, parents must escort their teens on weekends because of rampant shoplifting there.

In St. Louis, Las Vegas and Philadelphia, text-messaging “flash mobs” of youths have swooped into stores, stealing merchandise and running away.

And here in Chicago, shoplifting arrests of juveniles have jumped in the police district that includes the Magnificent Mile — even though retail-theft arrests as a whole have fallen slightly...

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