Bicyclist snatched woman’s purse while she checked her mailbox…
HYANNIS – A woman on Mitchell’s Way arrived home to check her mailbox at around 9:00pm Thursday evening, when suddenly a man on a bicycle rode by and snatched her purse right off her shoulder.
Police arrived within moments and began searching…
Officers considered using GPS to locate her cell phone, except this night she was not carrying her phone in her purse.
Everything happened so quickly and the 59-year-old victim had trouble providing details regarding the purse snatcher’s description.
Barnstable Patrolman Dennis Stampfl took a report and began to comb the area for clues. Just several blocks away Stampfl located the purse in the middle of the road.
The victim picked up her belongings and surprisingly there wasn’t much missing… just some prescription pills and a set of keys.
In other news:
MARSTONS MILLS – Thursday evening at about 8:10pm, a pedestrian was struck by a car in the area of 270 Cammett Road. COMM Rescue arrived and transported the patient to CCH… the patient is believed to have non-life-threatening injuries.
In other news:
HYANNIS – Friday at about 3:30pm, Hyannis Firefighters extinguished a basement fire at 117 Hamden Circle. The fire is thought to have originated on a mattress. Hyannis FD is investigating. Firefighters ventilated the home and there were no reported injuries.
In other news:
WEST BARNSTABLE – Police closed down a travel lane on the service road this afternoon after a boat trailer fell apart and dropped a motorboat on the pavement.
Capeway Towing arrived and hoisted the boat off the ground. Tow truck operators then strategically maneuvered the stranded watercraft up onto a flat bed truck. (They did a really fine piece of hoisting…)
7/19/2014
Robert Bastille,
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