Dalton Police Seek Man Who Stole Almost $350 From Wallet In Parked Car

  • Thursday, October 8, 2015

The Dalton Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying a man who stole nearly $350 from a wallet that had been left inside a parked car, but was apparently nice enough to leave the wallet behind. The incident was recorded by surveillance cameras.

The theft happened on Sept. 6, at the Academy Sports and Outdoors store on Shugart Road. At approximately 2 pm a man realized that he had left his wallet in his car in the parking lot, and sent his girlfriend out to get it.

After initially being unable to find the wallet in the car, she found it sitting outside the vehicle on one of the running boards. She checked the wallet and found that all of the cash was missing. The victim reports that he left his vehicle locked, but that one of the rear windows was rolled down and inoperable. He reported that he had $347 cash in the wallet which was missing, but the rest of the contents of the wallet were still inside. 

After police arrived, they checked store surveillance and saw an unknown male with closely-cropped or shaved hair and a goatee leave the store and walk to a white Nissan Quest minivan parked near the victim’s car. The unknown man was seen putting his bags into the back of the minivan and then walking to the side of the victim’s car. The man then got into his minivan and drove away before circling back and parking in the spot directly in front of the victim’s car. The suspect then got out of his minivan, walked to the driver’s side door of the victim’s car and appeared to put something down next to it. The suspect then got back in the minivan and drove away.   

Anyone with any information on this incident or the identity of the suspect is asked to contact Detective Matthew Lowery at 706 278-9085, dial 9, and enter extension 133.

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