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Aug 20, 2008 11:40 pm US/Central

"Good Samaritan" Targeting Elderly Dallas Women

Reporting
J.D. Miles
DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ― 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.

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