Crimes of the Week - Mississauga

Release #: 2009 - 26a 

Checkered Shoe Thief Sought
  

On the 23rd November, 2009, an elderly victim parked her vehicle in the area of Peter Street and Lake Street in Mississauga. Sometime between 2:26 p.m. and 2:29 p.m. an unknown suspect broke into the victim’s vehicle and stole her purse.  

A short time later a male suspect attended an Esso Gas Station located at 2185 Leanne Boulevard in Mississauga and purchased a quantity of gas using the victim’s stolen credit card.

The suspect at the gas station is described as:  male, white, approximately 28 years old, shaved head, scraggly beard.  He was wearing a dark waist length jacket, pants with the bottoms rolled up to his ankles and distinctive black and white checkered shoes. 

The suspect was driving a burgundy GMC Jimmy with black tinted windows, chrome around the doors and after-market chrome rims on the tires.
 

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