Police: Purse Snatching Ring Busted!
Published April 26th, 2009
Three people are in the jail for targeting and robbing elderly women.
Police say Christina Dees, Chad Sykes and James Wess were involved with two separate robberies that happened on Friday night.
Just before 5:00, a woman was sitting at a bus stop waiting, when she says a man approached her asked her what time the bus came. Then then stole her purse.
Police say three hours later, Chad Sykes and Cristina Dees snatched a purse in the parking lot of a grocery store. This time, the victim was an eighty five year old woman. Police say the car fit a description from a previous robbery and was pulled over.
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