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Moline Purse Snatching

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix
Published April 12, 2017 at 6:28 PM CDT
Moline Police

Moline police are asking for help following a purse snatching Wednesday afternoon. 

About 2 pm, a woman was getting into her car at the Genesis Medical Health Complex in the 39-hundred block of 28th Avenue, when another woman grabbed her purse. They struggled, then the suspect drove away with the purse, possibly in a Ford Escape.

Anyone with information should call the Moline Police or Crime Stoppers at 309-762-8613. 
 
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Herb Trix
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.
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