by: Tony Kurzweil Posted: May 20, 2024 / 08:47 AM PDT Updated: May 20, 2024 / 09:51 AM PDT Authorities are searching for at least four suspects involved in a string of convenience store robberies in Los Angeles and Orange counties overnight. Some of the robberies were captured on surveillance video, including one that occurred Monday around 1:45 a.m.
at a 7-Eleven store in Bellflower. Four male suspects were seen running into the store in the 9400 block of Artesia Boulevard and taking items. Three of the suspects also jumped over the counter and one took cash from the register.
Investigators said the robbers fled in an orange SUV. About an hour earlier, four male suspects wearing ski masks entered a 7-Eleven in the 15300 block of South Figueroa Street in Gardena. Two suspects simulated having handguns and two others took cash from the register.
The suspects fled in an orange Kia, according to authorities. It was unclear if the suspects were actually armed during the robbery. Around 11:30 p.
m., four suspects were reported to have entered and robbed a 7-Eleven in the 6800 block of East Slauson Avenue in Commerce in a similar fashion. And in Norwalk, five suspects were believed to have taken the cash registers at a 7-Eleven in the 10900 block of Alondra Boulevard around 9:15 p.
m. before fleeing in a dark-colored SUV. In Orange County, a 7-Eleven was targeted around 10:30 p.
m. in the 1000 block of Orangethorpe Avenue. Several stores in Anaheim were also robbed, including a 7-Elev.