Police search for reported purse snatcher at fast food parking lot
A man is accused of stealing a woman’s purse in the McDonald’s parking lot on Clark Lane Saturday evening.
Columbia police officers were called to the restaurant just before 6 p.m. The woman told officers a man took her purse then took off running.
Officers searched the area behind restaurants and hotels along the interstate with a K9 for about an hour, but they were unable to find the suspect.
The woman wasn’t hurt.
Police said the man is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a dark gray or brown sweatshirt with a hood.
