How to Use smash-and-grab in a Sentence
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Most smash-and-grab thieves aren’t going to take the time to try and cut it loose.
— Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023 -
Todd Spitzer has scheduled to discuss smash-and-grab crimes.
— Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023 -
This isn’t the first smash-and-grab theft to strike a Gucci store in California this summer.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023 -
Yet residents and businesses are on edge with smash-and-grab thefts.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024 -
The first smash-and-grab robbery occurred Dec. 24 at the jewelry store, according to the news release.
— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024 -
However street crimes, such as smash-and-grab raids on stores, home robberies and carjackings, have spiked.
— Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024 -
Commercial robbery, which includes thefts in which force is used or threatened (like some smash-and-grab thefts), was up about 13% in that same time frame.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023 -
The video and information about the June 15 smash-and-grab theft was released on the department’s Facebook page Wednesday.
— Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024 -
Eleven people have been arrested so far in connection with a series of smash-and-grab thefts from gun stores in the Greater Cincinnati area.
— Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2024 -
The actual robbers are realizing that what seemed like a low-stakes smash-and-grab has put a bounty on their heads as well.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024 -
His opponents have blamed him for a rise in property crimes in some parts of the county, including a brazen smash-and-grab spree at luxury stores.
— Nicholas Riccardi, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2024 -
Overall crime rates in Los Angeles are down from last year, and a recent surge in smash-and-grab robberies makes up little of the overall problem of retail thefts.
— Richard Winton and Nathan Solis Los Angeles Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023 -
Loading your audio article Police are looking for three suspects in a smash-and-grab burglary at a smoke shop in Wallingford on Friday.
— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2024 -
This ain’t a smash-and-grab type job ... we’re told some of the crews boosting LEGOs are now using counter-surveillance technology, plus getaway drivers and lookouts.
— Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 July 2024 -
But the issue has received more notice in the past few years as high-profile smash-and-grab retail thefts and flash mob robberies have garnered national media attention.
— Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023 -
As retail stores face smash-and-grab invasions, Amazon’s online shopping is assailed by the government.
— WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023 -
Peña served nearly seven years in prison on charges related to a smash-and-grab scheme that included burglary, larceny and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
— Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 1 June 2023 -
Nine people have pleaded guilty to charges in connection to smash-and-grab robberies worth over $1.7 million throughout Southern California.
— Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024 -
While shoplifting has been a growing problem, large-scale, smash-and-grab thefts, in which groups of individuals brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight, have become a crisis in California and elsewhere in recent years.
— Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2024 -
California will spend $267 million to help dozens of local law enforcement agencies crack down on smash-and-grab robberies, The Associated Press reports.
— Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Videos of brazen smash-and-grab looting operations, sometimes involving hundreds of masked individuals, appear in the news almost weekly, adding to the sense of lawlessness.
— The Week Staff, The Week, 2 Sep. 2023 -
Police are investigating a smash-and-grab burglary at a jewelry store in Westport on Thursday afternoon.
— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024 -
According to the Chicago Police Department, the smash-and-grab thief broke into the popular makeup store at approximately 3 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023 -
Sunnyvale Police have arrested five suspects involved in a disturbing smash-and-grab robbery at a California jewelry store that was caught on video.
— Stepheny Price, Fox News, 18 June 2024 -
Whenever the nation faces a safety threat – e.g., a high-profile shooting, a wave of smash-and-grab robberies or an act of terrorism – the public clamors for action and politicians and police agencies respond with proposals to increase their power.
— Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024 -
Sheriff’s detectives on Thursday arrested one person in a group of suspects accused of carrying out two smash-and-grab robberies several weeks apart at the same south Sacramento jewelry store.
— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024 -
Dramatic video captures smash-and-grab jewelry robbery Nearly $2 million in jewelry was stolen in a California heist.
— Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 June 2024 -
The difference that emerges between the two is Jack’s underdeveloped moral compass, which prompts him to push back — if not quite successfully — against Alejandro’s smash-and-grab criminal enterprises.
— Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023 -
While shoplifting, employee theft or fraud, or one-off smash-and-grab burglaries, all contribute to the havoc, Bonta’s crackdown specifically adresses organized retail crime.
— Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 June 2023 -
This week, a committee of Sacramento lawmakers convened to discuss solutions for continued shoplifting, with some attributing smash-and-grab thefts to Proposition 47.
— Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
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