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Incident: Armed Robbery - Purse Snatch 

Contact:  Watch Commander, 805-339-4416 

Location:   4600 Blk of Telephone Rd                                                                                                                          

Date/Time Occurred: July 23, 2010, 2:49 p.m. 

Officer(s) Involved: Numerous VPD Officers   

Victim(s):   Janet Newton, 51 yrs, Camarillo Resident   

Suspect(s): S-1:  Hispanic female, 17-20 yrs., 5’ – 6”, 140 pounds, black hair 

                   S-2: Hispanic male, 17-20 yrs., dark complexion, thin beard

Report #: 10-9628

Narrative:

On the above date and time the Ventura Police Dept Command Center received several 911 calls regarding a robbery in progress. The victim, Janet Newton, was walking along the storefronts at the Ross shopping center when the suspect confronted her. The suspect demanded her purse and Newton refused to part with her property. The suspect then grabbed a hold of Newton’s purse and tried to pull it away from her. Newton struggled to maintain control of her purse and at the same time she began screaming for assistance.

A witness saw Newton in distress and went to help her against the suspect. The suspect was unable to steal the purse and was seen running to a waiting vehicle with a lookout driver. The two suspects were seen fleeing from the shopping center in a white colored vehicle. The vehicle was last seen traveling southbound on Telephone Rd. 

If you have any information about this crime, you can make an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. If your information leads to an arrest, you could receive a cash reward of up to $1,000.