About the Crime:
This alert gives notice to residents in the 19th District (Town Hall) of recent robberies/purse snatching. In these robberies, one offender exits a vehicle and approaches the victim as she walks. The offender hurriedly takes a purse from the victim. In one of the incidents, the victim was pushed onto the ground. One victim related that she was followed as the exited a bank. One or two offenders remain in the getaway vehicle