Good Samaritan Assaulted While Trying To Return Wallet
GREENSBURG (KDKA) - State police are trying to identify a man who allegedly assaulted a Good Samaritan and made hundreds of dollars in fraudulent purchases in Westmoreland County.
"We had an individual that thought he was doing a Good Samaritan act. He found a wallet," said Trooper Stephen Limani, of Pennsylvania State Police.
Investigators say someone lost that wallet outside the Walmart in Hempfield Township on Oct. 17. Another man found it, and asked a third man sitting in a nearby vehicle if it was his.
"Low and behold, the person jumps out of the back of the vehicle, says, 'Yes, that's my wallet,'" said Trooper Limani.
But something doesn't seem right. The person who found the wallet asked the man in the vehicle his name just to make sure.
That's when officials say a struggle began and the man inside the vehicle took the wallet and refused to give it back. Police say a woman who was with the suspect yelled to the Good Samaritan from the passenger seat.
"'Please don't call the cops; don't call the police,'" said Trooper Limani.
The man and woman took off and police were alerted to the incident.
The credit cards in the wallet were later used to buy more than $600 worth of goods from several stores in the area.
"Four different locations they went and used the credit card... to the tune of $625," said Trooper Limani.
The suspects were driving a late-2000s Chevrolet Trailblazer, possibly black in color. Both it and they were caught on surveillance cameras. Meanwhile, the wallet that started the whole situation is yet to be recovered.
Anyone with information about the man's identity or whereabouts is asked to call State Police in Greensburg.
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