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Woman’s purse stolen from car while pumping gas at a QuikTrip in Cobb

This is a look at the "slider" theft that left a woman without her purse at a Vinings QuikTrip.

Credit: Cobb County Police Department

Credit: Cobb County Police Department

This is a look at the "slider" theft that left a woman without her purse at a Vinings QuikTrip.
By Ben Brasch
Feb 14, 2018

A woman recently had her purse stolen from her car while she was filling it with gas at a QuikTrip, said Cobb County police.

This allegedly happened at 10:40 a.m. Friday at the 2804 Paces Ferry Road location of QT in Vinings, cops said.

Police said the woman was pumping gas when a vehicle pulled up beside her. A man then got out, opened her car door and took the woman’s purse.

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She told the cops that she never saw the other car pull up.

The department said investigators think this is related to several similar gas station pumping thefts — nicknamed “slider” thefts —in metro Atlanta but didn’t answer when asked why.

Cops didn’t give a description of the car that pulled up.

Anyone with information can call Cobb police at 770-499-3945.

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