purse snatching

Two teens are behind bars and a third is on the run after the trio allegedly snatched a woman's purse.

A local man is behind bars this morning after he allegedly snatched a woman’s purse last night in west Shreveport.

A would-be purse-snatcher didn't get the purse and didn't get very far away before she was captured. Bossier City police say she tried to steal a 28-year-old woman's purse outside the Kroger store on Benton Road just before nine o'clock this morning.

Be on the lookout for a ring of thieves targeting patrons at restaurants on Youree Drive. In the latest case, a man was dining with his wife at Newk's when a man grabbed a woman's wallet right out of her purse and left the restaurant quickly ...

Shreveport Police detectives are investigating a purse snatching that occurred Thursday afternoon in broad daylight in downtown Shreveport.  But, police need your help in identifying and apprehending the suspect, and they're willing to pay up!

Shreveport police detectives have charged a south Louisiana man in connection with a purse-snatching in downtown Shreveport last night. It happened just before 10 in the 200 block of Crockett Street. A woman told officers that a man had snatched her purse from her shoulder and took off on foot...

A purse-snatching suspect is now behind bars. The incident happened just before 4 yesterday afternoon in the parking lot of Superior Steakhouse in the 6100 block of Line Avenue. An employee of the business has told police she parked her vehicle and was walking towards the restaurant when she noticed a man -- later identified as 19-year-old Pereto Jefferson -- approaching from the west...