3 men arrested in thefts at Burbank camera store

Three men have been arrested for allegedly robbing the same Burbank camera store twice, police said Wednesday.

According to the Burbank Police Department, two suspects entered the store in the 700 block of Mariposa Street at about 11:15 a.m. on June 3 and selected several cameras worth over $13,000.

One of the suspects allegedly acted as a distraction while negotiating with a store clerk. Moments later, the second suspect fled the business with the cameras, according to Sgt. Stephen Turner. Both individuals escaped the store on foot, where a nearby vehicle picked them up and sped away, police said.

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The following day, at around 11:20 a.m., two suspects entered the same store and selected three cameras valued at over $7,000 before leaving the business without purchasing the merchandise.

"An employee near the entrance to the store attempted to stop them; however they shoved him out of the way and ran with the stolen property," Turner said in a statement.

Detectives conducted an investigation with the help of surveillance footage, and identified the three suspects involved in the thefts as 26-year- old Isiah White of Sylmar and 22-year-old Larry Lewis and 33-year-old Christopher Monroe of Los Angeles, police said.

Turner said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies arrested White on June 6 in Walnut on outstanding warrants.

Lewis was arrested in Hawthorne after Burbank police officers conducted a traffic stop around 4 p.m. on June 27, where a loaded handgun allegedly was recovered from the vehicle.

Monroe was taken into custody around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday in Los Angeles after he exited a vehicle at a drive-thru restaurant and briefly fled the area on foot into a nearby neighborhood, where he hid inside a trash can, police said.

Several warrants were executed at various locations where the stolen cameras were recovered and returned to the business, Turner said.

Police said the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office filed charges of robbery, grand theft and being a felon in possession of a firearm for Lewis, robbery for Monroe, and grand theft for White.

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