The Orange Police Department is searching for a group of five women who allegedly stole a safe with $9,000 inside it from a grocery store last week.
Some of the women distracted employees at the store while others snuck to the back and heaved the safe into a grocery cart.
The group of five women worked together to district employees while two of them loaded a safe into a grocery cart.
(Orange Police Department)
The women then appear to calmly walk out of the store with a blanket or some other fabric covering the safe.
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“This is heartbreaking, especially during this holiday season. I hope these women are caught, jailed, and held to answer for their felonious crimes,” Orange Police Chief Dan Adams said in a statement.
![The women walked out of the store with the safe concealed in a grocery cart.](https://i0.wp.com/a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/12/640/320/Screen-Shot-2022-12-25-at-7.49.53-PM.png?w=597&ssl=1)
The women walked out of the store with the safe concealed in a grocery cart.
(Orange Police Department)
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The theft happened at about 11 a.m. on Dec. 17 at a family business in Orange, a city about 30 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.