BRENHAM POLICE LOOKING FOR SUSPECT WHO TOOK PURSE LYING IN STREET

  
(courtesy Brenham Police Department)

Brenham police are asking for the public’s help in locating a vehicle whose driver picked up a purse lying in the street.

Police say the driver picked up the purse near the Exxon Four Corners, located on Highway 290 West across from Jack in the Box.

The vehicle in question is a maroon and silver Ford F-250 Crew Cab long wheel base pickup.  Police say the truck is an older model, and has a large front bumper.

(courtesy Brenham Police Department)

If anyone has information on this vehicle, they are asked to call Sergeant Jason Derrick at 979-337-7328.

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  1. Our son found a purse in an Austin intersection. He opened it to get ID information, called the woman and she immediately started implying he stole the purse. When asked why he would be calling her to return the purse if he was a thief, she couldn’t explained why he would do that. She seemed to be unbalanced or high on something so he mailed the purse to her with everything inside, including $6. (He mailed it at his expense & on his time. There was an address on her ID. Before someone says he should have called the Police Department, he knows how that works. His brother, about 10 at the time. found a brand new & costly bike in our front yard. I kept it in the garage for a few days. checked the papers, store notification boards, etc. Nothing. I called the HPD lost 7 found department. Two officers came by & picked it up. A friend, a HPD Sgt., checked and found they had turned in a junk bike that was old and worn out. This son also found a $100 bill in a supermarket parking lot. He spoke to the manager who asked him not to tell anyone, “If you do, half the folks working here are likely to say they lost a $100 bill. Hang on to it and check back in a week to 1o days. If no customer asks about a lost $100 bill, I would suggest that you to keep it”
    Unless someone can show that the purse was taken from a distracted person, or stolen from a vehicle, I question how this is considered a theft. After implying that the person who picked up the purse is a thief, I think the PD hae killed any chance of it being returned.

  2. I feel if the person left the purse laying in the road that maybe they had stolen it from someone or somewhere and threw it away or maybe they had purchased another purse and just didn’t want the old one.Whose to say. I just don’t see a crime being committed by whoever picked it up. If it’s laying in the road apparently there wasn’t anything of value in it.

  3. Let me make this clear- BPD was exemplary first and foremost and they did State exactly what went on, even if a person is picked up and broad daylight if it is not returned it is stolen! BPD did not make it “look like” it was stolen when it was stolen or AKA picked up in broad daylight just to clarify and get the facts straight. That is exactly what it was.
    Have a blessed year!

  4. Unfortunately picking up a purse on the street is not a crime unless the person picking it up sees the person who dropped it. The right thing is of course to return it to it’s rightful owner. But that is not always the case. The Texas Penal Code does list theft by appropriation “A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and “thief” and “steal” shall be construed accordingly.” Picking up a purse on the street does not meet this definition as the purse is considered abandoned. Morally it is wrong to keep the purse but many folks moral compass is not where it should be these days.

  5. This is just hilarious. An ‘item’ in the road is finders keepers. Can’t steal something you found on the ground. Did that camera catch what what was in the purse? Nope…was there 5 bucks in it or 500? Don’t know cause it is gone. It was lost and now it’s been found, by someone who found it On The Road…..just hilarious.

  6. So that’s how it is now days? Sorry to anyone who leaves anything laying anywhere, I will no longer be a nice person and pick it up and do all I can to return it to you. I’m just going to let it lay so I am not accused of theft. What a sad society we live in………

  7. Just curious, what crime did this person commit by picking up the purse. If they are honest and ethical they would return it to it’s owner or turn it into the police, however picking something up on a public street does not seem like a crime?

      1. Section 31.03 (b) (1) states:
        Sec. 31.03. THEFT. (a) A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of property.
        (b) Appropriation of property is unlawful if:
        (1) it is without the owner’s effective consent;
        (2) the property is stolen and the actor appropriates the property knowing it was stolen by another; or
        (3) property in the custody of any law enforcement agency was explicitly represented by any law enforcement agent to the actor as being stolen and the actor appropriates the property believing it was stolen by another.

        The argument could be made that the owner through careless behavior effectively abandoned the property on a public street. I still don’t see that a crime has been committed.

  8. What if the driver was going to return it instead BPD making it look like the purse was being stolen

    1. Depends on when this happened. If I found a purse on the street, I would immediately take it to the police station. If someone didn’t immediately take it to the police station, one can only wonder why and what was the purpose of picking it up. That being said, it’s better late than never. If it was my property, I would hope that someone would turn it in.

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