An unknown man grabbed a 70-year-old woman’s purse at a Morgan
Hill grocery store and fled in a stolen vehicle, police said.
An unknown man grabbed a 70-year-old woman’s purse at a Morgan Hill grocery store and fled in a stolen vehicle, police said.
About 1 p.m. Wednesday, the man ran up to the woman and yanked her purse from her arm as she was leaving the Safeway store at 840 East Dunne Ave., according to Morgan Hill Police Cmdr. Joe Sampson. The woman was uninjured.
“As the suspect fled on foot a good Samaritan tried to cut him off in the parking lot with his vehicle to no avail,” Sampson said.
The man, described as average height and weight and Hispanic or white, continued through the parking lot and fled in a vehicle that police later discovered to have been stolen out of San Jose.
The stolen car was dumped and later recovered in the area of San Ramon Drive and San Pedro Avenue. Witnesses in the area called police to report two males leaving the neighborhood in another car at high speed, Sampson said.
Police are still looking both suspects, and will provide more details as they are available.
Anyone with information about this crime may call the Morgan Hill Police Department at (408) 779-2101.
