Hurricane Odile, which slammed into Mexico’s Baja California as a major Category 4 hurricane, is opening the door for criminals and looters to ransack villages devastated by the storm.

Officials say that 135 people have been injured from the storm, and no one has been killed, but the major problem has been power outages and looting from stores left unprotected in the wake of evacuations.

Police say that looters have appeared to focus on electronic and higher end stores, stealing televisions, stereo equipment and other high event devices.  Grocery stores have also been cleaned out with everything taken from Coca-Cola to potato chips to pancake mix.

Over 240,000 residents of the region are without power after most of the utility poles in the region were snapped off by the storm.  The Federal Electricity Commission says that 92 percent of the people living in Baja California are without power.

Officials say that without power, it will be very hard to control the looting of vacated homes and businesses.