December 6, 2011
Pepper spray unleashed in another department store
Holiday shoppers pepper-sprayed by a purse thief managed to subdue the parolee as he ran from a Walnut Creek department store.
Police said Bryan Black, 42, and a female accomplice snatched 17 high-end purses worth $10,000 at a Nordstrom store and ran for a getaway car.
Black, an Oakland parolee armed with a knife, was grabbed by a shopper and tackled by another. Black showered the shoppers with pepper spray, but they managed to hang on until police arrived, investigators said...
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