Here's What's Hot On CBS11TV.COM:
Aug 20, 2008 11:40 pm US/Central
"Good Samaritan" Targeting Elderly Dallas Women
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
Dallas police are looking for a motorcyclist who acts as if he's giving elderly women a helping hand before leaving them empty handed.
It's happened five times in the past week along a stretch of Forest Lane between Marsh and Inwood. Elderly women need to be on guard for a motorcycle riding robber who is attacking them in store parking lots.
Geraldine Petty was leaving a North Dallas grocery store when she fell while loading bags into her car. A man on a motorcycle came to her aid and then asked her for some money for gas.
"I got my billfold and started to get out $2 to give to him, and he just reached and grabbed that billfold and was gone on that motorcycle before I could blink an eye," said Petty.
The man charged more than $200 on the 83-year-old's credit cards by the time she got home to cancel them.
"I think he's kind of a Good Samaritan who stabs you in the back," she said.
Four other women, all in their eighties, have reported the same type of crimes.
One victim was walking out of a home improvement store when a man on a motorcycle helped her load potted plants into her car before taking her purse.
"It is pretty cowardly, but I guess we're pretty much sitting ducks," she said.
(© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
Hollywood Hair
Click to enlarge
Stumble It!
Reporting
