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Dropped Purse Leads Police to Shoplifting Arrest

Police tracked down a suspect in a May shoplifting incident and made an arrest earlier this month, according to a report.

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A Chicago woman who was wanted by police for a shoplifting incident in May was picked up earlier this month.

British J. Fort-Davis, 23, of the 800 block of East 48th Street, was charged with retail theft, according to an Evergreen Park police report.

Authorities were able to identity Fort-Davis when she allegedly dropped her purse in the store, police said.

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The theft happened at about 11:26 a.m. on May 21, the report states. Three dress, worth $52 total, were taken.

Officers who found the purse pulled an identification card from it and issued an arrest warrant, the report states. Fort-Davis was arrested on the warrant at about 10:45 a.m. on Oct. 12.

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