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A petty theft goes down at lunchtime in Allen Park. Let police know if he looks familiar. (Photos from Allen Park Police)
Sure, it's just a daytime purse snatching at a shop with an open back door. No one was injured or wiped out.
But a Metro Detroiter who clocks in at a dry cleaner to earn a modest weekly paycheck lost some cash, perhaps her phone and keys, and the time it took to call credit card companies and also a bank if an ATM card or checkbook was in the red handbag grabbed on a recent Wednesday afternoon.
The scene of the early afternoon purse snatching. (Google Street View photo)
So we post these two surveillance camera stills released by Allen Park Police, showing the tanned man with brown-gray hair, a gray mustache, khaki shorts and a striped gray shirt who was caught on camera as he spots and grabs the purse from a break table chair at One-Hour Martinizing, 7210 Allen Rd.
He snuck in through a rear employee door at 12:45 p.m. June 21 and committed "a total opportunity crime," Detective Jim Thorburn tells reporter Jim Kasuba of The News-Herald.
The larceny investigator welcomes tips at (313) 386-6377 if the noontime suburban crook looks familiar.
-- Alan Stamm
