LOS ANGELES—For Tonna, the manager of a shop in the city’s Beverly Grove neighborhood, her experience in recent days is like many other small business owners who have been victimized amid a trend of organized retail crime across Los Angeles. She declined to give her last name.
“Recently, it’s become normal,” she told The Epoch Times, her voice shaking. “They grab stuff and they leave.”
Her vape shop had just been robbed an hour before…