Two Suspects Are In Custody
By Dolores Quintana
Two individuals have been apprehended by authorities after targeting unsuspecting customers and stealing purses from upscale restaurants in Beverly Hills over the weekend, as reported by KTLA 5.
Two alleged thieves were seen on security camera standing behind patrons at Wally’s Beverly Hills, a popular restaurant and wine and cheese shop. The male suspect seemed to be making a phone call, and the female suspect carefully and quietly removed the purse from the back of the patron’s chair and nonchalantly put the purse into her own bag.
The duo then casually walks out of the restaurant while cooly acknowledging an employee. Beverly Hills police, in a statement to KTLA, revealed that after leaving Wally’s, the suspects proceeded down Canon Drive and struck again at another restaurant.
Another recent purse snatching that also happened at a restaurant occurred in Culver City at Akasha Restaurant, which we previously reported on June 1st. That theft was more of a snatch-and-grab while a female patron was seated at an outside table on the sidewalk, and her dinner partner gave chase to the suspect. During that incident, two accomplices were waiting in the car, and one brandished and fired a gun. One suspect from that incident is in custody.
The suspects in the Beverly Hills purse theft are Edeson S. Ramirez and Jeeny C. Pineda. Security cameras filmed their license plate, and the pair were apprehended in Fontana, California. Ramirez and Pineda will be charged with conspiracy to commit burglary.
