Handbag Crime All Over the World

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This week, the Best Handbag Wholesale blog is taking a bit of a darker look at the handbag industry and how handbags play a role in some crimes that have taken place recently. Criminals have been looking at western-style handbags as a viable way of making off with a lot of loot when devising robberies and muggings. Today, we’re going to look at a few of these stories:

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In Boston, Massachusetts, there is a Chanel store on Newbury Street, a high profile shopping area in the city. This store was stocked to the brim with top-of-the-line couture handbags and fashion until some robbers decided to hit the store up for more than $100,000 worth of bags and other goods. According to the story from NECN, a similar robbery took place at the Louis Vuitton store twice last month at Copley Place Mall. More than 40 bags were taken from the Chanel store in total.louisvitton

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Across the pond, there has been a recent rash of crime around Brimbank, Australia, primarily focusing on women carrying purses. A story from the Australian branch of Star News Group says that there have been 17 robbery crimes in the past month, seven of which were handbag snatches:

&eluxury#8220;Many of the robberies were targeted towards elderly women. In one case, an offender approached his victim from behind and cut her handbag strap with a knife. A passerby who attempted to chase down the robber was also threatened with a knife. [Senior] Sgt Grove told Star police had worked hard to drive down the statistics, with hundreds of officers flooding the city during operations targeting violence and street crimes.”