Stanford: Woman throws prohibited coffee to stop purse snatcher

Palo Alto military are acid for dual suspects who punched a lady in a face during an attempted purse snatching on Saturday during a Stanford Shopping Center.

The victim, a lady in her 20s, threw her crater of prohibited coffee during a male who attempted to waylay her purse from her shoulder, military pronounced in a news recover Monday.

“In response, a think punched her once in a face with his fist, causing a plant to scream,” military said.

The lady reported a occurrence to military during 10:19 a.m., about 30 mins after a spoliation attempt.

The lady was walking in a parking lot nearest a dilemma of El Camino Real and Quarry Road during a selling center, 180 El Camino Real, when dual group on a bicycle rode adult to her.

The primary suspect, who allegedly grabbed a woman’s purse and punched her, was station on a pegs of a behind wheel, while a man’s confederate was pedaling, military said.

After a encounter, a primary think jumped behind onto a behind of a bicycle and a dual rode toward Quarry Road.

The plant postulated a teenager damage to her face, though declined medical courtesy during a scene, military said. It’s misleading if a think was injured, military added.

The plant describes a primary think as a black male in his 20s who is spare and tall, between 6 feet 3 inches and 6 feet 5 inches, with a “squared-off flat-top haircut.” He was wearing a red, V-neck string T-shirt and black jeans.

The plant describes a confederate as a white male in his 20s with a skinny to middle build and brief brownish-red or black hair. He was wearing blue jeans and a “gray, short-sleeved shirt with skinny black plane stripes on a physique and a floral pattern on a collar and finish of a sleeves.”

“The plant could usually report a bicycle on that they were roving as not a tiny BMX-type,” military said.

Detectives are actively questioning this case. They contend a occurrence is not connected to dual other robberies that occurred during a Stanford Shopping Center progressing this month.

On Jan. 7, a male snatched a purse from a sole lady in her 40s and got into a getaway automobile with mixed passengers.

Police contend a motorist of that car returned to a Stanford Shopping Center on Jan. 10 and attempted to squeeze a purse from another lady in her 40s who was walking with her mother. A declare remarkable a vehicle’s permit image number, that led military to detain a driver, Delbin Noe Hernandez-Elvir, 38, of San Francisco, and Oscar Manuel Elena, 33, who was in a car during a time of a arrest.

Anyone with information about a incidents is asked to call a city’s 24-hour dispatch core during 650-329-2413.

Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org, sent around content summary or voice mail to 650-383-8984, or submitted by a Palo Alto Police Department’s giveaway mobile app, that can be downloaded during bit.ly/PAPD-AppStore or bit.ly/PAPD-GooglePlay.