Unruly California teens caught ransacking and raiding string of 7-Elevens on camera are turned in by THEIR parents

A group of California parents turned their ain children into cops aft seeing video of nan youngsters raiding a 7-Eleven store.  

Surveillance photos of nan alleged perpetrators were released by nan Los Angeles Police Department aft a drawstring of 'flash mob' robberies saw up to 40 young males stores successful Rampart, Hollywood, Wilshire and West Los Angeles. 

And immoderate of nan youngsters' families were truthful horrified by nan show of their behaviour that they turned their offspring successful to look justice, KTLA reported. 

In a constabulary briefing earlier this week, Assistant Chief Blake Chow said connected nan repeated raids sharing stories of parents who willingly surrendered their children.

'A genitor brought their kid successful who was progressive successful a flash robbery connected September 28,' Chow recalled, adding, 'and connected September 29 a akin business occurred connected 77th wherever nan genitor turned their kid successful and that juvenile was besides booked for robbery.'

The names of those suspects person not been shared. 

Detectives are now trying to place nan remaining suspects. It is unclear if nan boys handed successful by their parents will person a much lenient woody if they turn-in their friends. 

'They are very brazen, they are not worried astir being stopped and they're not worries astir being seen,' LAPD Detective Supervisor Samuel Arnold said of nan raids. 

'They're not moreover conscionable shoplifting. They're going successful and deliberately knocking complete costly items, java makers, merchandise, sunglasses, and conscionable wholly destroying nan store,' Arnold added.

Beginning a time aft '7-11 day' aliases 'free Slurpee day,' nan lawless teens person ransacked a full of 14 7-Eleven locations, destroying merchandise, knocking complete shelving and successful immoderate cases breaking windows

'In respective incidents witnesses were physically pushed by nan suspects during nan criminal take-over of nan stores, pinch nary respect for others safety,' an LAPD study said.

None of nan ferocious events person resulted successful beingness wounded to others, though respective witnesses reported 'fear for their information aft specified fierce callous behavior,' nan study added.

LAPD has accrued patrols and is deploying their Retail Crime Task Force successful an effort to way down nan remaining youth-vandals

LAPD reports astir of nan affected 7-Eleven locations are individually-owned aliases family operated arsenic what takes nan galore teenagers conscionable minutes tin origin thousands of dollars successful damages.

Beginning this week LAPD patrols will beryllium group up astatine various 7-Eleven locations connected Fridays, arsenic 13 of nan full 14 raids person occurred connected a Friday.

The investigation remains ongoing and anyone pinch accusation regarding nan precocious released surveillance footage is being asked to interaction nan Los Angeles Police Department.