A crew of at least a half dozen robbers took thousands of dollars in cash, jewelry and other items from a Fairfax district home early Saturday in the latest of an ongoing series of follow-home robberies that have occurred in Los Angeles this year, according to the L.A.
The latest follow-home robbery occurred at 1:56 a.m.
KTLA-TV reported that the the victims were confronted at gunpoint and the suspects took about $4,000 in cash, a diamond gold chain, two diamond gold rings and a Gucci item.
It is the latest incident in which victims are robbed at their homes after they have been followed from places such as Melrose Avenue, the Jewelry district in downtown Los Angeles, high-end restaurants and nightclubs in Hollywood and the Wilshire area, according to the LAPD.
Among those targeted in recent weeks was “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Dorit Kemsley, who was followed to her Encino home by two men.
Investigators compared the series of follow-home robberies to the “knock-knock” burglaries that occurred several years ago in which similar robbery crews targeted affluent neighborhoods.
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