Munster Police Looking To Identify Purse Thieves
The Munster Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying the subjects in the photos below who are persons of interest in a theft and fraud investigation.
On December 21, 2019, the pictured subjects were at TJ Maxx located at 1684 E. 80th Ave. in Merrillville, Indiana. The subjects took a purse, which was left in a cart, belonging to a customer, Lt. John Peirick of The Munster Police Department stated. The purse contained several items, including the customer’s credit cards. A short time later, the same subjects went to Game Stop, located at 7971 Calumet Avenue in Munster, Indiana and purchased items and a gift card with the stolen credit card, Peirick said.
Anyone who can identify the subjects is asked to contact Munster Police Detective Sergeant Tim Nosich at 219-836-6658 or tnosich@munster.org. You can remain anonymous.
Who leaves their purse in their shopping cart? Mine is always over my shoulder at all times. I think credit cards should be like debit cards where you have to use a PIN when inserting card at cashier. Because you can insert your card at POP, cashiers dont ask for IDs anymore so easy now to use stolen cards. The chip cards do not prevent credit card theft purchases.
Thanks for solving the crime.
Regardless, no one should steal anyone else’s shit!! Left in cart or not, it’s not yours don’t touch! We learned that in kindergarten!!
I see women every time I go in a store leaving their purses in cart….these old ass people should be ashamed….stealing a purse. Get a frickin job!
Well, Susan, not everyone carries their purse. Mine, for example, is heavy. Let’s not be judgmental.
I worked retail this past Christmas season and was stunned by the number of purses and wallets left unattended in carts or at the cashier registers. One customer had a fistful of credit cards and just kept inserting them into the card reader until one worked. This article doesn’t surprise me at all.
With that being suspicious, did you ask for ID?
I completely agree with Susan. Never leave your purse unattended. Or, only take the things you absolutely need like your DL, card to be used for payment, and keys them keep them in your pocket.
You people are so judgmental! A crime is a crime. It doesn’t matter where the purse was. Let’s just catch these people so that they don’t do it again.
Sad to see Grown Adults doing this, and I’m sure it,s not there 1 st time by the way they look so confident they got away with it again. And to hint they probably raised their kids this way too, that,s why it never changes in the morals of our youth because this has been passed down thru he generations. Sad, that they never had to chance to grow up wiser. Hope they are caught and made an example of on billboards, let humiliate them for all generations to see.
Unfortunately, you have to be halfway paranoid for everything now a days. People tend to not automatically think horribly of people and would like to live in a world like we used to, when this kind of thing was rare and most people you encountered were good, upstanding people. Unfortunately in the me me society you run across these selfish immoraled people more often than anyone should. They probably gave their stolen stuff as gifts, a decent person would feel like a troll for something like this. But in reality there are alot with no sense anymore running among us and it has no age limit apparently. Feel bad for the lady this happened to.
Need to find them and chop off a finger to remind them the next time they go to reach for someone else’s purse.
Go look in the lines in IL to get pot. Might find them there. 😉
My purse is heavy and i always put it in the cart but I latch it in to the baby lock so it cant just be snatched easily. I never leave it unattended either. If i walk away from my cart, I unlatch it and carry it with me until I go back to my cart.