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Thieves steal nearly US$300,000 of vodka from L.A. Distillery

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Los Angeles police are using surveillance camera footage to help find thieves who were seen breaking into a downtown distillery and stealing more than 6,800 litres of vodka.

Investigators say the suspects sawed through deadbolts to get inside a storage room at the Fog Shots distillery.

Over 6,800 liters of pre-packaged vodka shots were stolen from the Fog Shots vodka factory in L.A.
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Two different security cameras recorded the heist.

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The first one captured the three men plotting outside the distillery before an unmasked suspect spotted the CCTV camera, climbed a razor wire fence and knocked it over.

The second video shows a man jumping on the roof and slowly crawling around before he hits the camera.

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A company representative, Art Gukasayan, told media the thieves made away with about 90 per cent of the company’s holiday inventory, worth about $278,000.

Gukasayan added that selling the product is futile because each bottle has a barcode, though the company worried that the thieves might try to sell to underage kids.

With files from the Associated Press

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