Halifax police seek information in connection to purse theft on bus

Halifax Regional Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman who they say is responsible for the theft of an elderly woman’s purse last month.

Police say they received a report just after 3 p.m. last Wednesday that a woman on a Halifax Transit bus had stolen a 71-year-old woman’s purse. The victim took the bus at 1:36 p.m. from the Bridge Terminal and arrived at Lamont Terrace in Dartmouth at 2 p.m. She left the bus but then realized she left her purse behind and flagged down the bus. Police say she couldn’t locate her purse where she had been sitting.

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The purse contained a sum of cash, credit and bank cards, keys and a cellphone. A check at transit lost and found also turned up nothing.

HRP obtained video from the bus which showed a woman exiting the bus after taking the purse. She is described as being in her mid- to late-30s, with a medium build, light complexion, long black hair in a pony-tail and tattoos on her arms and legs. The woman was wearing a black hoodie, knee-length grey sweatpants and white sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to call Halifax police or make an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.