Shop histing ring are now under arrest. Good evening, and thanks for joining us. This investigation focused on union square where many crimes allegedly committed happened. Carolyn tyler joins us wlif details. Carolyn . That crew hit the high end stores here, and now, there is organized shoplifting ring has been busted. Its not your old school shoplifting. Its taking a new approach to nab the thieves. Last year, the district attorneys new crime strategies unit began connecting the dots between similar cases in union square. That led to charges against 16 people, said to be part of a group, the so called rainbow crew. Obviously, the advantage for the prosecution in doing this kind of investigation is that consequences to the offenders are much greater. The rainbow crew swarmed high end retailers in San Francisco and nationwide. Some of the kids we have linked to other cities with totals of well over a million dollars. And it has become increasingly brazen and violent. They started to use
Squeeze in closer take a look where its falling at this moment you could see over San Francisco and parts of the peninsula down through cinema pay o cuts off right about redwood city along the coast ocean beach area, pacifica Half Moon Bay seeing nice rain over the bay bridge and if we shift to the eat the eastbay shoreline getting light rain, farther east areas over lafayette, concord, looks like as we head towards brentwood the possibility of a few scattered showers continues as we get through the afternoon. We could have some on the evening drive and the sierra continues to have scattered showers even a little bit of rain snow mix looks like along i80 which is 5200 feet as we get into the evening hours, this rain will begin to taper off and we are looking at dry weather as we get through tuesday, and a warm up for the second part of your week, that includes fleet week. So i will have a lock at what you could expect for the receipt of today and well talk about the dry weather coming
The rainbow crew swarmed high end retailers in San Francisco and nationwide. Some of the kids we have linked to other cities with totals of well over a Million Dollars. And it has become increasingly brazen and violent. They started to use pepper spray and asked to have cases open and push them out of the way. The investigation is boosted by a new partnership. The merchants installed 300 cameras throughout the shopping district. These are High Definition cameras. You can get clear facial features. Reporter 16 defendants are charged in 23 cases with 10 suspects in other cities. In San Francisco, abc7 news. The first storm of the season is still bringing rain to the bay area, look at the rain drops. Abc7 news was in emeryville where a sprinkle was enough to dot our truck was rain drops. In San Francisco, people went to work this morning and Spencer Christian is tracking what is left of the storm. What can we expect for tomorrows commute . It should be drier. There could be left over wet
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We have some snow flakes do dotting the landscape and picked up about an inch or two of snow fall above 7000 feet. Which is probably a the will have resorts there happy to see the early season snow fall. A taste of many more storms with heavy snow fall to come. Golden gate bridge had a rainy ride this afternoon. Look at the time lapse. Drops hitting the lens as folk go about the day. Tourist need to get the photo in of the Golden Gate Bridge. We see the rain has moved out of here and it has left a little bit of moisture in some areas. Live from sutro tower showing you nice night out there dry with overcast sky. Rain total in the north basement outside the North Bay South of the Golden Gate Bridge. Most spots less than a tenth of an inch of moisture. Out door tomorrow morning for work and school. Fair amount of cloud cover. Cant totally isolated pocket of drizzle. Afternoon will be much brighter and we track a warming trend. Warmer air about to move in take a look at the 7 day forecast