Overview
- The attempted burglary unfolded early Jan. 6 at a luxury handbag shop near Jamboree Road and Dupont Drive in Irvine, according to police.
- Building security alerted officers after cameras spotted two people entering the building by scaling a wall.
- Responding units used K-9 teams and drone support from Costa Mesa police to find the suspects hiding near office spaces.
- Surveillance and body-camera footage released by Irvine police shows the pursuit and handcuffing after brief resistance.
- About $100,000 in designer handbags was recovered and returned, and suspects Richard Bernard Spencer, 40, and Marcellus Ronell Shelby, 30, were booked into Orange County Jail on burglary, grand theft, conspiracy, vandalism and resisting arrest.