Overview
- Building security spotted two people on camera entering a luxury shop near Jamboree Road and Dupont Drive in the early hours of Jan. 6 and alerted police.
- Officers, supported by a K-9 and a drone, searched the building, cornered the suspects upstairs and took them into custody.
- Police identified the men as Richard Bernard Spencer, 40, of Los Angeles, and Marcellus Ronell Shelby, 30, of Hollywood.
- The pair faces suspicion of burglary, grand theft, conspiracy, vandalism and resisting arrest, according to Irvine police.
- About $100,000 in handbags were recovered and returned to the store, and video from surveillance and officer bodycams was posted to the department’s Instagram.