Took Pocketbook and Left Child

It could have been worse.  They could have stolen the car with the child inside.  In a report filed with the Wilkes Sheriff’s Department, a Ronda woman said that while she walked inside Pleasant Hill Daycare to drop off her child, someone entered her unlocked vehicle and stole her pocketbook.  A Deputy questioned the victim’s other child who was in the car at the time of the theft.  The child said that after his mother went in the daycare—a heavy set, dark-headed white female entered the unlocked van, looked eye to eye with him, and took his mother’s purse.  The woman then got in a silver minivan and left heading toward Elkin.  The stolen pocketbook was recovered a short time later in the Burger King parking lot in Elkin.  The victim reported that the only thing stolen from the pocketbook was 40 dollars in cash.  The man who recovered the purse said he found in the restaurant parking lot near the front door.  The identity of the suspect is unknown.