The Dalton Police Department has identified two people who stole a purse containing cash and bank cards that was left behind by a shopper at a local grocery store. The couple were recorded by the store’s surveillance cameras.
The incident happened on Christmas Eve at the Food City grocery store on Walnut Avenue. The victim told police that she accidentally left her small clutch purse in a shopping cart after completing some last minute shopping and realized her mistake when she got to her car.
She immediately returned to where she left her cart, but it had already been taken by other customers. Surveillance video shows a white male wearing a navy blue hoodie and jeans and a backwards baseball cap taking the cart. The woman with him, a white woman with blonde hair wearing a red Georgia Bulldogs hoodie and a gray toboggan, then took the purse out of the cart and handed it to the male who concealed it in the front pocket of his hoodie. The couple then left the store with the purse in a white four door Cadillac. The victim’s purse contained $280 in cash and bank cards. The victim’s debit card was used a short time later at a Marathon gas station in Calhoun, Ga.