$5,000 Pickpocket Crime Caught On Tape
SKOKIE (CBS) – Police say a yet-unidentified woman pick-pocketed $5,000 from a man at a neighborhood auto-repair shop while talking with him – a crime captured on surveillance video.
When the woman came into the shop Wednesday, she had originally gone to the Chicago location owned by Javier Medina and asked for him by name. When she was told he was at the Skokie shop, she went there.
Medina now thinks she was targeting him, CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
The fortyish woman wore a Chicago Bears jacket and had her hair in small twists with reddish blond highlights.
After entering Superior Motor Sport Auto and Tire Repair in Skokie on Jan. 5, she went into the company office, taking an $8,500 scanner and $275 digital camera.
The victim, Medina, walked into the office. As the thief told him she needed an alternator estimate, she got closer to him and reached into his left cargo pocket to grab an envelope containing $5,000 in $100 bills.
"I didn't feel anything. She was very close to me, so she was distracting me, and I was on the phone writing the information," Medina told Le Mignot Thursday.
Medina said he had so much money on him because he planned to go to a car auction later in the day. He said he wanted to buy cars to fix up to generate additional income.
