Flash Mob Shoplifts at Silver Spring 7-Eleven ... new type of organized crime ?

Darcy Spencer

Montgomery County is dealing with another flash mob robbery and it was all caught on tape. Dozens of kids raided a 7-Eleven in Silver Spring over the weekend. Police are searching for all the teens that were involved.

At least 70 people simultaneously shoplifted from a Silver Spring, Md., 7-Eleven Saturday night.

Officers arriving at the store in the 12200 block of Tech Road after 11:20 p.m. saw several people gathered in surrounding parking lots and on side streets, police said. They began to disperse when police arrived.

The shoplifters — described as teens and young adults — took items including snacks and drinks, police said.

“It really is this mob mentality where you get a group of kids that go in to the 7-Eleven, and a group will say, ‘Let’s steal stuff,’ and a lot of kids I think get caught up in that,” Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said.

Police stopped a group of six people ages 16-18 near Tech Road and Broadbirch Drive. Each had items from the 7-Eleven but no receipts, police said. Full story HERE 

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