Crime & Public Safety

Keep an eye on your shopping carts. Purse snatching reported outside Bluffton store

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A woman’s purse was stolen Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of a Bluffton store as she unloaded her grocery cart, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office report.

The incident was reported around 4:30 p.m. at the Bluffton Sam’s Club. The woman said she was unloading her purchases from the cart into her vehicle when a man “grabbed her purse” and ran to a black vehicle. The vehicle then drove away.

The bag was a black leather Michael Kors purse valued at $130 with bank cards, the woman’s ID, and gold and diamond earrings inside.

No arrest was listed in the report.

Caitlin Turner
The Island Packet
Caitlin Turner is the retail and business reporter for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette. She has worked in the news industry for five years in both Ohio and South Carolina and loves the Lowcountry life.
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