A group of 20 to 30 people grabbed numerous electronic items Friday evening at the Best Buy store in Burnsville and quickly fled before police could arrive.
No weapons were seen in the incident and no one was reported injured, Burnsville police Capt. Don Stenger said. No one had been arrested as of Saturday morning.
“We don’t know exactly what was taken or the dollar value,” Stenger said.
The robbery occurred shortly after 8 p.m. on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year following the Thanksgiving holiday. There were unconfirmed media reports that a similar robbery conducted by a smaller group also happened Friday at the Best Buy in Maplewood.
The incidents resemble a number of mass robberies recently reported across the United States, where groups of people “swarm” a store, clear the shelves of goods and then flee.
