BELLEVUE, Wash. — Police said all five people who were involved in a strong-arm robbery and assault outside a Bellevue Walmart have been identified.
Bellevue police said within minutes of the media releasing the information, several tips and leads rolled into the police department.
Four of the suspects have turned themselves in to authorities and were arrested. The fifth suspect, a woman, is still at large and police are asking that she turn herself in for questioning.
In the incident on Jan. 2, two women waited in the van while the three men loitered in front of and just inside the store watching shoppers.
Police said the first suspect grabbed a man in his 50s as he was about to enter the store, but the victim pushed him away and the suspect ran into the parking lot.
A few minutes later, two women shoppers in their late 50s and early 60s exited the store.
A second suspect approached them in the parking lot, asked to use their phone and then tried to pull one woman’s necklace off her neck. He then tried to grab the other woman’s purse and necklace off her neck, causing her to fall to the ground. That victim bit his hand.
If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of the woman on the right seen in the photo above is asked to contact Detective Jenny Robertson at 425-452-6050.
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