Similar purse-snatching happened blocks away in Washington days before Kristi Noem’s bag was taken

nbc News - 02:43
“I’m shocked at the similarity of the crime,” the victim said after her handbag was taken while she ate dinner with her family.

Three days before Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's handbag was stolen while she dined out at a Washington restaurant, another woman eating with her own family at a nearby eatery had her purse taken in a similar manner, records show.

NBC News discovered the similarities in the two incidents after requesting reports of thefts in the neighborhood from the DC Metropolitan Police Department.

It’s not clear if the two incidents are connected, but the victim in the first purse snatching believes they are.

“I’m shocked at the similarity of the crime,” she told NBC News when she described how her purse was stolen Thursday at a restaurant in the downtown Westin Hotel.

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