The Irvine Police Department is warning of a crime trend across the nation called “bank-jugging” after three men in Orange County were arrested after they were suspected of committing the crime.
Bank-jugging is when suspects stake out banks and watch for customers who withdraw cash, follow them to their cars, and then burglarize them.
Three men from Texas, Maurice James, 24, Samuel Marcus Polite, 20, and Ja Vion Marcell La Shang Mathews, 22, were arrested this week in Seal Beach. They face charges of conspiracy, vehicle burglary, felony vandalism, possession of burglary tools, and possession of stolen property…