
Handbag Men
Two guys on a taken moped whom snatched a bag from an adolescent were pursued by a motorist who caught the event on dashcam regarding Gold Coast.
Video footage introduced today because of the Queensland Police provider revealed the pillion traveler on the moped grab the case through the 19-year-old lady as they passed this lady from behind on North Street at Southport on Tuesday afternoon.
It also revealed the motorist which filmed the event give chase, before losing the pair once they mounted a footpath and drove down a dirt track.
Detective Sergeant Steve Thomas said similar guys had been thought to have attemptedto snatch the handbag off a 28-year-old girl about 20 minutes down the road Queen Street in Southport.
"The pillion passenger once again experimented with take the feminine's handbag ... [she] been able to hang on so they really left empty-handed, " Detective Sergeant Thomas said.
Police may looking into contacts into another incident on morning of April 2, when a 69-year-old guy inside carpark of a Southport service station had been approached form behind by two males on another taken moped.
if that's the case, the pillion passenger took a bag hanging from the handles of his walking framework.
"we are truly investigating to see whether or not they are linked. We've suspicious they might but beyond our suspicious you'll find nothing connecting those two other individuals than the modus operandi of this offence, " he said.
The men tangled up in Tuesday's incidents were described as Caucasian, aged within their late adolescents to very early 20s.
The pillion passenger had brown, wavy hair, whilst the driver had been wearing a black colored motorbike helmet with a white race stripe on it.