Labubu Burglars Make Off With Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Merchandise From L.a.-area Store

LOS ANGELES — A group of burglars snatched a bunch of nan summer's astir sought-after artifact aft breaking into a Los Angeles County shop overnight, the shop said connected Instagram.

One Stop Sales successful La Puente said that 4 men collapsed into nan shop and stole "all of our inventory," which included a number of nan trendy Labubu dolls — toothy, gremlin-looking plush toys that person exploded successful popularity.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said deputies responded to a burglary successful nan 600 artifact of Glendora Avenue successful La Puente, eastbound of Los Angeles, astatine 1:29 a.m. Wednesday.

"Several boxes of Labubu dolls were stolen, weighted astatine astir 7 1000 dollars," nan sheriff's section said successful a statement.

The suspects were utilizing a stolen Toyota Tacoma that was recovered soon aft nan burglary, nan sheriff's agency said.

One Stop Sales posted in-store information footage to Instagram that shows a group of masked men participate nan shop arsenic nan sound of breaking solid is heard. The men tin beryllium seen successful nan video taking boxes of merchandise from nan store.

"Today we sewage robbed, and they took each of our inventory trashed our store, we are still successful shock, if you guys tin stock this station please and thief america find these thief’s!" One Stop Sales wrote connected Instagram.

According to nan store's website, immoderate of nan pricer Labubus are going for $500. A Labubu postulation that dropped successful nan outpouring was retailing for $27.99, but nan unit marketplace for nan plush collectibles, specifically this summer, has been hot.

The Labubu dolls are exclusively made and sold by Pop Mart, a Chinese retailer that is known for "blind box" collectibles. When purchasing 1 of these, buyers don't cognize which colour aliases creation Labubu they are getting until they unfastened nan box.

It wasn't instantly clear really galore Labubus nan burglars made disconnected with, but nan shop had been promoting its inventory connected societal media successful nan days starring up to nan break-in.

Andrew Blankstein reported from Los Angeles and Rebecca Cohen and Nollaig O'Connor from New York.