LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Two Los Angeles law enforcement officials had been damage early Thursday morning when their patrol automobile crashed following a theft involving a number of suspects who partook in a marijuana dispensary housebreaking in South L.A.
Safety video exhibits burglars ransack a marijuana dispensary in South L.A. on Feb. 3, 2022. (Flower and Leaf )
The incident started a bit after 5:07 a.m. when the LAPD officers responded to a housebreaking name on the Flower and Leaf Dispensary positioned within the 1500 block of Florence Avenue.
Safety footage obtained by CBSLA from the proprietor of the dispensary exhibits not less than three suspects breaking in and ransacking the enterprise.
The video exhibits the LAPD officers arriving on the dispensary of their squad SUV, which prompted the suspects to scatter. A pair appeared to run away on foot, whereas not less than one entered a automotive. The officers drew their weapons on the automotive because the suspect sped away, nearly working them down within the course of. It seems no photographs had been fired, nonetheless.
The officers then jumped into their squad SUV, the place a collision involving their squad SUV occurred a short while later on the intersection of Florence and Vermont Avenues, a few half-mile from the dispensary.
Safety video of officers with their weapons drawn on a suspect automobile following a marijuana dispensary housebreaking in South L.A. on Feb. 3, 2022. (Flower and Leaf )
Footage from the crash scene confirmed one civilian automotive which had slammed right into a fence, whereas the LAPD squad SUV had important front-end injury.
The 2 officers within the squad automobile had been taken to a hospital with minor accidents. A civilian occupant of the opposite automobile was additionally hospitalized in unknown situation.
The suspects seem to have escaped. No arrests have been made, police stated.
House owners are left with only a few easy questions following the string of focused robberies on their location, after detailing to CBS reporters that their store was additionally hit a few month in the past.
“All I need to know is why?” Leslie Brannon, the proprietor of Flower and Leaf requested, “What did I do to you?”
She instructed CBS reporters that they’d simply restocked cabinets on Wednesday night, and that this second theft in the identical quantity of months, “just isn’t successful we are able to take proper now.”
“It’s actually arduous as a result of as a social fairness program we’re attempting to present again to the neighborhood,” Brannon continued, “So for them to return in right here, it’s not solely hurting us, it hurts the group as properly.”
Regardless of all of it, Brannon is grateful that the officers who responded to the scene had been there to assist. “I do respect them doing their job and doing one of the best they will to catch them,” she stated, “I do hope the officers that had been injured are okay.”
Staff labored all through the day to restore injury sustained within the break-in and change what stock they might following the theft. Because of safety digicam footage, they had been not less than capable of shortly handle the realm of concern.
The footage confirmed the suspects breaking a window to enter the enterprise, earlier than heading in direction of the reception space – which is surrounded by drywall and glass – the place they reduce out a big portion of the drywall to achieve entry to the place all of Flower and Leaf’s provide was stocked on the cabinets.
Brannon hopes that issues will change following this second break-in. “I can solely hope that the cops are capable of not less than discover them,” she stated. “At this level, I don’t even need the merchandise again, I simply need some kind of justice.”
