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Selfie snap gives RCMP Easy Suspect in Purse Theft

Jul 22, 2016 | 10:21 AM

Snapping a selfie may be the undoing of a less-than-brilliant Nanaimo thief.

Nanaimo RCMP say a woman had her purse, containing her phone, stolen on July 5.

She put her purse down beside her car on Kennedy Street and then went to a nearby garbage bin to throw out a bag. Police report the woman saw a man walking near her car, and when she went back the man and her purse were gone.

The next day she got a new phone and when activated, it automatically uploaded her pictures from her old phone.