Police arrested five suspected gang members following a brazen smash-and-grab robbery at an East Bay mall that netted more than $100,000 in jewelry, authorities said.
The takedown resulted from a coordinated effort between the San Francisco and Concord police departments, utilizing drones and new real-time crime centers to track the suspects across the Bay Area.
On June 28, the San Francisco Police Department’s Violence Reduction Team was monitoring the group when the suspects traveled to Concord and targeted a jewelry kiosk inside the Sun Valley Mall…