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Mall of America Shut Down for Fugitive Search

BLOOMINGTON, MN-The shutdown probably cost the 500-plus stores more than $1 million in lost sales at the nation's largest shopping mall. The last significant closing was during weekend power outage in June 1994.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on March 21, 2001

BLOOMINGTON, MN-The nation’s largest shopping center was shut down for most of what would have been a busy spring-break shopping day as law enforcement officials conducted a manhunt at the mall Tuesday. Security officials at the mall saw the wanted man enter the mall, and police had found a car he was driving in the mall’s huge parking ramp.

The mall was shut down from about 8 a.m. until it opened again at 6 p.m. — after police concluded the man, Anthony S. Zappa, had eluded them for the second time in as many days. Meanwhile, the mall’s 500-plus stores and restaurants lost more than $1 million — probably more, given that it averages $2.3 million insales per day, according to mall officials. On average, about 100,000 shoppers visit the mall each day.

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