Thieves ransack an AutoZone in South L.A. after road takeover

An AutoZone in South L.A. was ransacked throughout a potential road takeover on Monday morning, police stated.

About 1:15 a.m., police obtained stories of individuals breaking right into a enterprise close to the intersection of South Fundamental Road and Vernon Avenue, the place a road takeover had been reported, authorities stated.

Officers arrived round 1:30 a.m., approached the shop with their weapons drawn and shouted for anybody inside to come back out and give up, in accordance with video footage from OnSceneTV. By that point, nonetheless, everybody was gone.

Video confirmed discarded merchandise packing containers and damaged glass strewn in regards to the parking zone, with the entrance door and safety gate pulled open.

Police didn’t say whether or not there was any surveillance footage of the individuals who broke in.

This isn’t the primary time an auto components retailer being ransacked has coincided with a potential road takeover close by.

A few month in the past, about 100 individuals ransacked one other South L.A. AutoZone, KTLA reported.

Final summer season, almost 50 individuals rushed into an AutoZone at Century Boulevard and Hoover Road, the identical location that was damaged into final month. The individuals lined their faces as they pulled on the safety fence on the important entrance and pushed their means into the shop, in accordance with video footage shared on social media.

A 24-year-old man was arrested in reference to that incident and charged with organized retail grand theft, one rely of fleeing a pursuing officer’s automobile whereas driving recklessly and second-degree housebreaking, Los Angeles County prosecutors stated.