A purse was stolen in Prince George’s County last week by a thief who reached into a car at a service station and grabbed it, and four similar incidents occurred the next day, police said.
They said the first incident occurred about 6 p.m. Wednesday as the driver was returning to her car after pumping gasoline in the 5300 block of Sheriff Road in the Landover area.
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82-year-old’s Cadillac had run out of gas at Veterans Parkway and Annapolis Road.
The Thursday incidents occurred at three service stations and a food store in the Landover, Oxon Hill and Capitol Heights areas, police said.
The four thefts occurred between 9:46 a.m. and 12:36 p.m.
In Wednesday’s theft, police said the thief was a passenger in an SUV that pulled alongside the victim’s car.
The thief got out, reached into the car from the passenger side and returned to the SUV with the purse.
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