Prada Handbags

Two men stole $7,565 worth of designer handbags Saturday from Neiman Marcus at Stanford Shopping Center and fired pepper spray at store security officers who tried to stop them, police said.

On the store's security camera footage, "you can see one guy putting like six purses on one arm and three on the other, while the other person's doing the same," Palo Alto police Sgt. Wayne Benitez said Monday.

The two men walked out of the store with the 13 Diane von Furstenberg purses, which ranged in price from $225 to $645 each, at about 3 p.m., Benitez said.

Two of the store's loss-prevention officers caught up with the suspects outside but lost them after the pepper spray attack, Benitez said. The suspects drove away in a black, newer model Chevrolet Impala with paper license plates.

Only one of the loss-prevention officers got hit with the pepper spray, Benitez said. He was treated by paramedics at the scene but not taken to a hospital.

The suspects were both described as in their 20s, about 6 feet tall and weighing about 200 pounds, Benitez said. They both wore black-hooded sweatshirts, black jeans and black shoes.