Magnets taken from cars at NorthTown

Support-the-troops magnets were plucked off cars at NorthTown Mall on Friday.

Two women allegedly stole 88 magnets from parked cars. The women told police they planned to stick the magnets on a friend’s car as a practical joke, according to a press release from the Spokane Police Department. Nearly all of the magnets were ribbon-shaped ones used to show support for soldiers, police said.

Heather M. Erickson, 18, and Amanda Poston, 19, were cited for theft and released.