Orange police were searching for three men after two took cell phones from a T-Mobile store on Chapman Avenue and fled in an awaiting car on Monday, Sept. 19, authorities said.

Someone inside the store filmed the men, both wearing black hoodies, yanking display phones off of the wall and then running outside to the car in the parking lot, according to OnSceneTV. They did not have face masks on.

Police received a report of the grand theft just after 6:15 p.m. and responded to the store in the 3300 block of East Chapman Avenue, near Prospect Street, Orange Sgt. Phil McMullin said.

Jonathan Villasenor, the store’s manager, told OnSceneTV, a news outlet that often works with Southern California News Group, his employees were helping a husband and wife when the suspects walk in.

“We went up to them and said ‘Hello, welcome,’” Villasenor said. “They did not acknowledge us. They went straight for the iPhone display, then started yanking on our iPhone demos.”

They did the same at a Samsung display area, Villasenor said. In all, the thieves took five phones that Villasenior valued at about $4,000.

No one was hurt, but the husband and wife were a little shaken up, Villasenor said. He said thieves stole phones from a different store he had managed in the past.

“It usually happens when the new iPhones come out,” he said. “No one approached them, we let them steal what they want. It’s not worth our lives.”

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