NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Lieutenant Clint Simpson
For Release January 20, 2016

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at approximately 6:30pm, the Eden Police Department responded to Pizza Hut at 730 Linden Drive Eden in reference to a Purse Snatching/Strong armed Robbery.  Officers arrived and found a 75 year old female in the parking lot of the restaurant.  The victim advised that she was walking to her car and heard the horn of a vehicle blow, she stopped briefly, then heard a male voice say let go of the purse.  The male suspect forcibly took the pocket book, knocking the victim to the ground. A witness exiting the business observed a full size white pick-up truck leaving the parking lot headed south on Linden Drive.  The victim was transported to Baptist Hospital for treatment of a leg fracture.  
 

The suspect is described as a male wearing a stocking hat or toboggan possibly driving a full size white pick-up truck. 
 

The Eden Police Department is currently attempting to identify the individual in the photographs.  As a result of the investigation to this point, we believe the white male in the photographs was in the area Pizza Hut when the incident occurred.   

 

 

 

 

 

The Eden Police Department is asking for assistance from any citizen(s) that were in the area of Pizza Hut on January 19 2016.  If you were in the area of Pizza Hut or Walmart area and observed anything suspicious or a vehicle or the person in the photographs please contact Detective Brian Disher at 336-623-9240 or Rockingham County Crime Stoppers at   336-349-9683.