The Alexandria Police Department is looking for multiple suspects who allegedly stole debit and credit cards from a woman’s wallet in an Old Town coffee shop.
The victim spent about five hours in the coffee shop on the afternoon of Feb. 7 (Friday), located across the street from the Alexandria courthouse in the 500 block of King Street, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit. The victim told police that she was in the shop from noon to 5 p.m. She put her purse on the chair and she had her back toward it while speaking with a friend sitting on the other side of her.
“When it was time for her to leave, (the victim) stated that she looked at her purse and noticed it was unzipped,” police said in the search warrant affidavit. “(The victim) said her wallet was showing as it sat inside her purse. She didn’t think anything of it at the time and instead zipped up her purse and left the coffee shop.”
The victim told police that she then got a fraud alert text associated with her Truist account. According to the text, someone tried to use one of her cards at a Target in Arlington, but a nearly $900 charge was declined.
The victim then found that, at 3:30 p.m., her American Express card was charged $2,100 at the Apple Store at 2700 Clarendon Boulevard in Arlington.
“The victim took her wallet out of her purse and discovered that all of her credit cards were missing,” police said in the search warrant affidavit.
Police found that the victim’s cards were used by three suspects at a Target in Arlington, and that one of the three suspects matches the description of the suspect in the Apple Store.
No arrest has been made and the incident is under investigation.
