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Handbags stolen from Macy’s for third time...

Handbags stolen from Macy’s for third time

GLENDALE GALLERIA -- More than $1,000 in designer handbags were

stolen from Macy’s, the second such incident in two days.

Loss prevention agents at Macy’s, at 201 S. Central Ave., reported

Monday a man came in to the department store, grabbed eight Dooney &

Burke purses worth $1,200 and ran to a car with its engine running,

according to a police report. On Sunday, a similar incident occurred,

in which a man grabbed $790 worth of designer handbags and drove away

in a black sedan, police said.

It was at least the third such incident to happen at a Macy’s

store in a month. A similar theft occurred at the department store’s

South Coast Plaza location April 16.

It was not known Thursday whether each incident involved the same

thief.

Anyone with information about this incident can call Glendale

Police at 548-4840. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Crime

Stoppers at 507-7867.

Suspected cigarette snatchers sought

SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- Glendale Police were on the lookout

Wednesday for the burglar who allegedly followed a man from Costco in

Los Angeles and stole several cartons of cigarettes he locked in his

car.

The Los Angeles man reported Friday he bought $1,649 worth of

cigarettes from Costco and drove to the Bank of America branch at

3812 San Fernando Road.

The man went into the bank and returned to find his car’s rear

window smashed in and the cigarettes gone, police said.

Anyone with information about this incident can call Glendale

Police at 548-4840. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Crime

Stoppers at 507-7867.

Alleged eyeglass burglar sought by police

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- Glendale Police were searching Wednesday for

burglars who broke into a Glendale woman’s trunk and stole three bags

of eyeglasses, worth $50,000.

The woman reported Friday she put the three black bags, each

containing 576 frames, in her trunk and went to her uncle’s apartment

in the 1100 block of East Maple Street. The woman, who sells

eyeglasses, returned to her car to find the trunk open and the bags

gone, police said.

Anyone with information about this incident can call Glendale

Police at 548-4840. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Crime

Stoppers at 507-7867.

Compiled by

Darleene Barrientos

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