WATCH: Looters Ravage Buffalo After Deadly Blizzard

At least 10 people were arrested in connection to looting Buffalo businesses that were closed by the blizzard. The blizzard struck upstate New York over Christmas and left 37 dead and many without power.

Security footage shows looters destroying storefronts and stealing computers, televisions, and other high-priced goods. “These were not crimes of desperation, but crimes of opportunity to steal items from unoccupied stores during a blizzard,” John Flynn is the Erie County district attorney. pledged to prosecute The looters “to the fullest extent of the law.”

WGRZ reported that city officials announced Tuesday the creation of an anti-looting team to find those who have broken into stores. According to the Buffalo Police Department at least four looters are being tried in court.

Buffalo has accumulated Over four feet of snow has fallen since Friday in New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s (D.) called “the most devastating storm in Buffalo’s long storied history.” Monday, President Joe Biden approved Hochul’s request for an Emergency Declaration, a Day Before decamping To a St. Croix villa that a couple of wealthy donors owned.

Biden will welcome the new year on the tropical island where temperatures are forecast to stay in the 80s.

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