Overview
- Officers responded early Jan. 6 after security reported two people entering a luxury store near Jamboree Road and Dupont Drive in Irvine.
- The suspects were identified as Richard Bernard Spencer, 40, of Los Angeles, and Marcellus Ronell Shelby, 30, of Hollywood.
- Surveillance and body-camera footage shows the pair scaling a wall, grabbing designer handbags, attempting to exit, then fleeing upstairs before officers moved in.
- Costa Mesa police provided drone support as Irvine K-9 units and heavily armed officers located the suspects hiding near office spaces.
- About $100,000 in handbags was recovered and returned to the retailer, and both men were booked into Orange County Jail on burglary, grand theft, conspiracy, vandalism, and resisting arrest charges.