Thieves target two high-end stores in California

During the robbery, the suspects attacked and pepper sprayed a security guard, police said. KABC reported that at least one of the suspects was wearing an orange wig. CNN has reached out to the LAPD for more information.

Also Wednesday, police said at least four people stole $20,000 worth of merchandise from an Apple store in Santa Rosa, about 55 miles north of San Francisco.

“During a brazen daylight robbery in front of customers and employees, the suspects obtained more than $20,000 worth of merchandise from the store and fled the area in an unidentified vehicle,” police said. Santa Rosa Police Department said in a statement.

Police said the suspects were between the ages of 14 and 18 and wore masks.

The thefts come amid a recent wave of “smash and take” crime.

On Monday, at least 18 people break into Nordstrom department store in the Grove in Los Angeles and stole thousands of dollars in merchandise, LAPD Director Michel Moore said. Three people have been arrested, he said.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, a group of thieves flooded into the Southland Mall in Hayward on Sunday night, smashing cases with a hammer at a jewelry store before taking the items and fleeing. And east of San Francisco, three suspects were arrested Saturday night after a mob ransacked a Nordstrom department store in Walnut Creek.

On the outskirts of Chicago, 14 people stormed a Louis Vuitton store last week and fled with more than $100,000 worth of bags and other merchandise.

CNN’s Andy Rose and Stella Chan contributed to this report.