Crime & Safety
Thieves Wanted For Stealing $3K Pocketbook From Parked Car: PD
A Deer Park woman reported that thieves stole her pocketbook as she was walking into her home with her disabled child, police say.
DEER PARK, NY — Suffolk County Police are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the people who they say stole a pocketbook worth more than $3,000 from a vehicle in Deer Park last month.
According to police, a woman purchased a Louis Vuitton handbag worth $3,100 at the Walt Whitman Shops on January 28. Upon leaving the store, police said, the woman saw another woman filming her. When the woman returned to her home in Deer Park, she parked her
car in the driveway and entered her house with her disabled child, police said.
A moment later, a man was seen exiting a gold Honda Odyssey from the passenger side and smashing the rear window of the woman's car, police said. He removed the handbag from the vehicle and was then picked up by the driver of the Honda, police said.
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