Time To Blush! $2M Worth Of Cosmetics Stolen In Utah Recovered In LA
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — About $2 million dollars worth of cosmetics that were stolen from a cargo container in Utah were recovered at various locations in Los Angeles, police said.
Last Thursday, detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Commercial Crimes Division watched the cosmetics being loaded into a delivery truck from a large warehouse in South Gate. They searched the warehouse, found the cosmetics and detained eight employees.
None have been arrested, police said.
More of the purloined cosmetics were found at a store near Ninth Street and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, another store on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, another on Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park and another location on East Washington Boulevard in Commerce.
The recovered cosmetics represent about half of the merchandise that was stolen from a the cargo container, which was en route to Washington.
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