Thief swipes hospital employee's purse, car while she's working
An employee at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Superior Township finished her shift Monday only to discover both her purse and vehicle were gone.
The woman told police she came to work around 6 a.m., parked in the lot and placed her purse in a room and went about her workday.
When she left around 8 p.m., both purse and vehicle were missing. She contacted police.
Soon after the report was filed, deputies from the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office found the missing vehicle behind a building in the area of Washtenaw Avenue and Golfside Drive. Contents from the woman’s purse were also recovered in the vicinity where the vehicle was found.
There are no leads on any suspects at this time, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies continue to investigate.
John Counts covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at johncounts@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.
Comments
Kathy Sabol
Wed, May 9, 2012 : 9:57 p.m.
This day in age you really need to lock your valuables up. They have lockers and desk drawers that lock available at the hospital. If the area where she works doesn't have any place for her to lock her belongings up they really need to make that available to her and her coworkers.
RJA
Wed, May 9, 2012 : 1:57 a.m.
Many nurses will work 12 hour shifts , not daily. My granddaughter does, and will stay over if need be if another doesn't show up on time. (and this is at Childrens in Detroit)
eom
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 10:54 p.m.
Really? It's a horrible thing to do, but somehow worse during the week we celebrate Nurse's and all they do for us.
Scot Mathison
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 8:48 p.m.
Security at St Joe is really good huh??? They should all be fired for doing such a poor job. Stuff is stolen from there all the time and security can't do a thing.
tracy
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 6:31 p.m.
Prob stole the purse..found the keys & walked the parking lot till they found the vehicle by setting an alarm off ??
ViSHa
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 11:11 p.m.
what's scary is they also then have the ID with the address and probably a garage door opener.
a2cents
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 6:23 p.m.
14 hour day?
Berda Green
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 5:20 p.m.
omg thats terrible
obviouscomment
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 4:55 p.m.
Does SJMH provide employee lockers? It would be nice if they provided them for all employees that do not have an office. Even if they were just small cube lockers to store valuables.
justcurious
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 3:51 p.m.
Obviously someone knew where she put her purse at work, maybe on a regular basis. They must also have know which car was hers. It's not safe to ever have your purse left in an unlocked situation anymore at work I guess.
justcurious
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 6:51 p.m.
Vishna, that's why you lock your valuables up isn't it?
ViSHa
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 4:16 p.m.
If the keys had an automatic open, they may have just clicked until a vehicle flashed. It's such a violation when someone steals like that, not to mention the headaches of having to cancel things, etc...
dading dont delete me bro
Tue, May 8, 2012 : 4:07 p.m.
@justcurious, perhaps the employee parked in the employee lot? lessee, employee lot would mean that an employee might be away from their vehicle for an extended period of time? perhaps? me no park in employee lots.