Four people were arrested after they stole over $90,000 worth of Balenciaga bags from the designer's East Hampton location on March 3.
The robbery was caught on surveillance footage, which shows a woman entering the store in a pink ski mask and sunglasses. The woman appears to be shopping at first. She is seen asking an employee for a size in a shoe, and when the employee goes to the back to get the shoe, four other people in masks entered and started grabbing bags.
An employee at a store near Balenciaga called the police, and officers from the East Hampton Village Police Department chased a Dodge Durango to the edge of their jurisdiction where New York State Troopers picked up the high-speed chase. Police were forced to back off of the vehicle and follow them from a safe distance, as they were going over 100 mph into oncoming traffic.
After the suspects exited the highway onto Wading River Road, three of the suspects took off on foot into a wooded area, while two other suspects tried gathering up the bags before attempting to flee on foot. Officers searched the area and arrested four of the suspects, and they also recovered 36 of the 48 stolen handbags.
The three men and two women, whose names haven't been released, that were arrested have been charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The woman in the pink ski mask in the surveillance footage is still at large.
