Roseville police are warning residents to not leave purses and wallets in vehicles because they are prime targets for opportunistic thieves.
In the past week or so, there have been four instances of thieves entering cars and making off with purses:
-- Last Thursday an off-duty Roseville police officer spotted a stolen car. The man driving the stolen car was arrested and inside the vehicle was a purse stolen from an unlocked vehicle in Rocklin.
-- On Saturday, during daylight hours, a purse was stolen from an unlocked vehicle in the 100 block of Riverside Avenue in central Roseville.
-- On Sunday, about 1 p.m., somebody entered an unlocked car parked on Verbena Court and got into a purse left on the front seat, taking credit cards. The thief promptly used the credit cards in Sacramento.
-- On Monday, someone broke into a vehicle parked at a fitness center in the 300 block of North Sunrise and took a purse stowed in the trunk. Police suspect the thief watched the woman place the purse in the trunk at the fitness center.
Roseville police say that thieves are partial to breaking into vehicles at fitness centers because they know the victims will be working out and away from their cars for about an hour.
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