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03/20/2004: "Creative Crime"

From The Ann Arbor News (3rd item):

Victim says robbers used injury as ruse

University of Michigan Police are looking for two men who reportedly stole a woman's wallet while in the elevator of the U-M Cancer and Geriatrics Center on Monday, officials said.

The men entered the elevator with a woman from Albion about 1:30 p.m. and selected the floor below where the woman was going, said Lt. Robert Neumann.

One man got off on the selected floor and fell, pretending his foot was stuck in between the elevator door and the floor. When the woman exited and bent down to help the man to his feet, the other man slipped her purse off her shoulder and stole the wallet, Neumann said.

The woman stepped back into the elevator and didn't realize what happened until the doors closed, Neumann said.

This is a bad thing to do, whether or not the victim is an elderly cancer patient.