Teens Accused of Robbing 3 Doughnut Shops in One Morning

Five teens suspected of committing a string of doughnut shop robberies in the southeast area of LA County were under arrest Monday night after store security cameras helped track them down.

The group was accused of robbing doughnut shops in Long Beach, Santa Fe Springs and La Mirada within the span of an hour and a half Sunday morning.

Security footage shows a group of young men casually walking into K&T donuts around 4:20 a.m., and within seconds they scatter. A man in a hoodie then approaches the store owner.

"He's holding [it] inside [his] shirt but he didn't show it to me," said Henry Chen, owner of K & T Donuts, when talking about the robbery.

Chen armed himself with a pair of scissors.

"They tried to grab the scissors," he said.

He said two of the men went to the back office but couldn't get in, then they went to his cash register and grabbed whatever they could before running from the store.

He called 911 as soon as they left. He said the entire robbery took less than two minutes.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the same suspected robbers were also seen on a store security camera's in Long Beach. They allegedly robbed a Yum Yum Donut shop nearly an hour and a half before coming to Chen's store that same morning.

While investigators were watching the security footage in Long Beach, the baker called his brother in Santa Fe Springs at that Yum Yum Donuts location to tell him they had been robbed. His brother told him he believed the same guys were cleaning out their Yum Yum Donuts located on Telegraph Road. They made off with nearly $800 in cash.

Security video from all the shops helped positively identify the five men who were arrested.

No one was injured in any of the robberies.

One suspect was 18 years old, while the rest in the group were all 17.

All were expected to be arraigned in court Tuesday or Wednesday as investigators worked to see if they were connected to other crimes.