FERRYSBURG, MI (WHTC) – A 65-year-old Spring Lake man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a purse from a laundromat in Ferrysburg in the Olympic Shopping Plaza at 17621 174th Avenue.
According to Sgt Jay Douglas of the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, the purse was hanging inside the laundromat. The suspect took the purse and fled on foot through the parking lot. Several bystanders who observed the incident were able to follow the subject, confronted him and obtained the purse from the suspect. At that point the suspect continued to flee the area on foot.
Deputies from the sheriff’s office located the suspect, and he has been lodged in the Ottawa County Jail on charges of larceny of a building and restricting and obstructing police.
The name of the suspect and the name of the victim are being withheld at this time
