Police search for purse snatcher
State police are looking for a young man who snatched a woman’s purse and a bag of her groceries in Greene County on Tuesday.
Trooper Joseph M. Popielarcheck said Debra L. Closser of Waynesburg was walking to her car at the Giant Eagle supermarket in Franklin Township around 9:55 p.m., when the man ran up behind her and grabbed the purse and groceries.
The man then fled toward Sugar Run Road with the purse and groceries in hand, police said.
Authorities said the man was at the store earlier in the day with two other men.
Both of the men were described as white, with one wearing a black jacket and the other wearing a camouflage jacket, police said.
The man who stole from Closser was described as white, in his early 20s, wearing blue jeans and a white hooded sweatshirt.
Police are reviewing security cameras from the store, and ask anyone with information call the station at 724-627-6151.