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08-20-2018 SUSPECT SOUGHT FOR STEALING I-PHONE

Aug 20, 2018
Media Contact : Sherrie Morgan, PIO

Polk County Sheriff's deputies are seeking information about a suspect who stole a black
I-Phone 8 Plus at the Race Trac Gas station at 4285 Hwy 98 South in Lakeland on August 13, 2018.

The victim was getting some coffee and laid the phone on the counter around 8:30 pm. She then used the ATM, paid for her drink and left the store without her phone. Minutes later, two women came inside the store. One female appeared to be Hispanic with dark brown to black hair. She was wearing a black shirt with NYC written on the front and blue jeans and slippers on her feet. The other suspect is described as a black female wearing a red Alabama T-shirt, dark blue jeans, and black shoes. 

Surveillance video shows the Hispanic woman picking up the phone and leaving with it. She left the store in a black 4-door vehicle.

If anyone has information about this, they are asked to contact Detective Williams at 863-499-2400.




 

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