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McDonald’s Customers Nab Purse Snatcher

Posted at 1:32 PM, Jun 03, 2014
and last updated 2014-06-03 15:27:14-04
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Plainfield Township, Kent County, Mich.

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (June 3, 2014) — Customers came to the rescue after a woman became the victim of a purse snatching outside the Plainfield Avenue McDonald’s Tuesday morning.

The Kent County Sheriff’s Department said the incident happened just before 11 a.m.

Witnesses tell FOX 17 News a young man took the woman’s purse, then ran across the street to the Meijer store parking lot.  Two customers chased the suspect and detained him until sheriff’s deputies could arrive.

The suspect was taken to the Kent County Jail.