An investigation is underway after a 71-year-old woman was robbed while walking in west Tamworth yesterday.<\/p>\n
About 3.45pm (Tuesday 28 April 2015), the woman was walking in a westerly direction on a footpath along Robert Street when two males riding bicycles approached her from behind.<\/p>\n
Police have been told as one of the men rode past the woman, he grabbed her handbag, before both males rode from the scene.<\/p>\n
Several witnesses and the woman gave chase; however the men could not be found. The woman\u2019s bag was recovered nearby; with cash, personal cards and documents missing.<\/p>\n
The woman was not injured during the incident.<\/p>\n
Officers attached to Oxley Local Area Command were contacted and commenced investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
As they continue their inquiries, police would like to speak to two males who may be able to assist them.<\/p>\n
The males can only be described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance.<\/p>\n
Police are also urging any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward and contact Tamworth Police via Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An investigation is underway after a 71-year-old woman was robbed while walking in west Tamworth yesterday. About 3.45pm (Tuesday 28 April 2015), the woman was walking in a westerly direction on a footpath along Robert Street when two males riding bicycles approached her from behind. Police have been told as one of the men rode … Continue reading “Police investigate after 71-year-old woman robbed – Tamworth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}