Medical Office Worker Finds Car Stolen Along With Purse

A 50-year-old woman working at a South Side office called police Monday afternoon when she discovered that her purse, containing her keys, credit cards and checks, was missing.

Later she found that her car also had been stolen.

The victim, who works in the Fifth and Browne Medical Building, discovered about 4:30 p.m. that her purse was missing from a closed desk drawer in her office. The woman told police the office area is marked “private” and is not accessible to the public.

As the victim searched for her purse, she saw a man, about 25, with short blond hair, talking to the receptionist.

The man left the building hurriedly, and the receptionist told the victim he had been asking her “irrelevant questions.”

The victim, realizing her car keys were in her stolen purse, went to the employee parking garage and found that her car had been stolen.

Police said the purse may have contained materials, along with the keys, that enabled the thief to identify and steal the victim’s 1987 dark red Saab with Washington license 495 BRU.

Halloween witch abducted

A South Side resident said a 4-foot-tall Halloween witch was taken Sunday night from the porch of her home in the East 2200 block of North Altamont Boulevard.

“I’ve been hit again,” Joanne Sepulveda said.

Two years ago, thieves took a wooden wagon that was part of her Halloween display, she said.

Sepulveda said she and her 9-year-old granddaughter had spent a day decorating the witch, whose outfit included a black dress and pointed hat.

Sepulveda said she hasn’t reported the theft to police.

“They’re not going to care about a $20 witch,” she said, adding that she replaced the stolen witch with another, “but the new witch just isn’t the same.”

, DataTimes