It was a Mickey Mouse operation.
Cops in San Bernadino County, Calif., trapped a pair of Mickey Mouse-merch-swiping thieves dubbed the “Mickey Bandits” after the criminals were spotted leaving the scene of a break-in at a dental clinic Thursday morning — their third alleged heist of the day, the Upland Police Department said.
Surveillance footage shows the male suspect carrying a Mickey Mouse doll out of the clinic, police said.
A cop cruiser cornered the suspected bandits, a man and woman who “came to their senses and stopped” after brief hesitation, Upland Police said in a Facebook post.
The pair’s car contained “burglary tools, gloves, meth pipes, the hoodie that was worn, and the stolen items – which included a Mickey Mouse stuffed animal,” police said.
They had allegedly committed two other burglaries in the city of Claremont before the mousey caper.
The woman was on probation for a burglary charge in Los Angeles County. Both she and her male cohort were arrested for commercial burglary and “several other offenses,” police said.
