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Surveillance Vid Captures Woman Dragged 300 Yards in Walmart Parking Lot by Purse Snatchers

Nov. 6, 2012 9:05am Liz Klimas

Drive-by purse snatchings seem to be becoming more common. In April, TheBlaze reported about a woman hanging onto her handbag for dear life as she was dragged by a van through a grocery store parking lot in Florida. Now, a Georgia woman experienced a similar situation, which ultimately lead police on a long-distance, high-speed chase before the suspects were apprehended.

According to WSB-TV, a woman was dragged 300 feet in a Walmart parking lot in Covington County last week when a couple in a red Ford sedan grabbed at her bag and she didn’t let go. My Fox Atlanta reported Covington Police Capt. Ken Malcom explaining further that the 51-year-old woman was actually tangled in her bag and couldn’t let go.

Suspects Multi State Theft Spree Captured After Dragging Woman by Purse in Ga. Parking Lot and Leading High Speed Chase

Here you can see the woman lying on the ground. (Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch this report with surveillance footage of the scene:

From there, a 35-mile chase with speeds topping 127 miles per hour ensued. The suspects were eventually trapped by the police and Georgia State Patrol, according to My Fox Atlanta. The two in the vehicle — 29-year-old Robert Chastain and 25-year-old Kristin Callaway — were arrested. WCSH 6 reports the couple is from Missouri.

The couple arrested as captured by a police cruiser dashcam. (Image: YouTube screenshot)

The police said several purses and other stolen items were found in the car, which was also stolen, leading them to suspect the pair were part of a multi-state crime spree.

“Same basic M.O., traveling to a Walmart, riding through the parking lot looking for an opportunity to steal a purse,” said Malcolm, according to My Fox Atlanta, which noted similar cases in Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina.

Watch the report:

The woman dragged through the parking lot had several abrasions, which were treated at the hospital.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 2:34pm
All they really wanted was a little re-distribution

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Elena2010
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 12:50pm
Fanny packs are excellent concealed carry options. Wallet and pistol all in one package.

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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 1:39pm
  Attempted murder. Lock them up and throw away the key!
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 12:08pm
Life is like that. ONe day a woman gets a good price on **** dryers at Walmart….and the next day…she gets drug around the parking lot by a van full of obama voters.

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Angel_light
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:52am
everyone beware this is the time of year people know you have your Christmas money in hand to buy gifts.

My aunt a couple years ago almost had her purse taken right off her shoulder but she held onto it and she ended up swing her purse at the guy and knocked him out cold. Police came on scene and asked her how her purse knocked him out. she looked in her purse and saw that she had forgotten to go to the bank; she had all her rolls of quarters in her purse!

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Joel Knows
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:30am
When the government doesn’t live by the law they set an example that no one must live by the law. Our 44th President has not seen fit to be ethical and moral in his daily life. This has translated to many of his followers feeling they don’t have to live by the laws either.

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bankerpapaw
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:28am
Maybe those worthless thugs should be drug across a parking lot for a while.

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CALLMEMSGT
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:26am
Vera Bradley should start making concealed carry holsters!

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truelife
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:18am
The only double tapping would be your face on the concrete… How on earth would a gun have helped this situation? When your being dragged across pavement at 40 clicks by your purse, shooting someone is the last thing on your mind.

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term limits for congress
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:12am
It is called redistribution, Infidels. The 51-year-old woman did not build that purse, so she does not deserve to keep it.

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Thighmaster
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:00am
I prefer to carry My Colt 45 ACP with self defense rounds….

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- jungle J
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:03am
  stupid comment.
  
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- SingerGuy
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:15am
  I alternate hollow point and FMJ every other round and train to always shoot in groups of two. However, I doubt this woman would have had the time to draw and fire if she was tangled in her purse and being dragged. There wouldn’t have been the reaction time.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:17am
  Yes Jungle, stupid comment. He should just lay down and be victimized. He should defend himself. The police will arrive in time..they ALWAYS do, right?
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:30am
  @JUNGLE J
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:03am
  stupid comment
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  You’re next
  
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- Thighmaster
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:49am
  Actually My post was in response to another post who said they always wear skates (thanks Blaze) but after several failed attempts it ended as a stand alone post. As for you Jungle Jim, have no fear I will protect My best friend (pictured) then myself, then you if there is no one else present.
  
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JeffersonwasRIGHT
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:59am
The solution to this is very simple, The Second Amendment. Georgia has conceled carry and stand your ground laws, so the answer is have your legal handgun in your hand as you walk through the dark parking lot or light who cares and when confronted or grabbed DOUBLE TAP CENTER MASS problem solved.

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- bayoucastine
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:27pm
  CRITICAL mass is about 2 to 3 inches above “center” mass and MUCH more effective. It is closer to the heart and major blood vessels. Doubt that? Ask [almost] any physician.
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:58am
This advertisement brought to you by Citizens For Concealed Carry.
The woman victim or an armed citizen could have opened fire and rid the world
of 2 more unwanted parasites on society.

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- Montana10
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:44am
  @blackcrow I agree with you. After this same thing happened here in a small town grocery store lot, I went straight to the gun shop and bought myself an ankle holster. Now I will let them take the purse, but they would not get far.
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:55am
Ladies it might take some getting used to but you should find another way to carry than in a purse. A purse is a target and impossible to control once thugly gets his paws on it.

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123456beatriz
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:53am
Now the ACLU will defend them saying “they are misunderstood poor couple they deserve another opportunity “. This “ACLU” are idiots! naive Liberals. This is one of the reasons America is falling in a communist system. If Obama wins America will be lost!

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rockymtngal
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:44am
This couple just wanted her ID so they could vote for Obama.

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- shagstar
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 11:34am
  you don’t need I.D. to vote obama! hell,,you don’t even need too be alive to vote dummycrap!
  
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Capt_Gregg
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:40am
The cops should have dropped the guy on his head when they had him upside down.

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Eastinfection
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:34am
This is exactly why i wear roller skates everywhere i go…

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- rockymtngal
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:40am
  Me too! LOL!
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:47am
  Its one of the reasons I don’t carry a purse with any regularity.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:28am
This just go to show the increasing insanity and inhumanity growing in the nation; I am glad she was not killed in this case, the two criminals need to be jailed and their cell bricked up forever.

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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:04am
  Keen observation and situational awareness are for MOST an ‘afterthought.’ Criminals take the path of least resistance… FLAUNT it — expect it. The bleating of the sheep never saved it from the knife.
  
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Oneirishman
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:21am
OMG, hang them in the town square.

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- scuba13
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:36am
  Encinom and Monicne on the honeymoon they always wanted.
  
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RayOne
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:17am
Go Vote, this is your choice.

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Pork_Anvil
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:17am
LOL @ people who shop at Walmart!

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Talent-Keyhole
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:17am
I am always armed with my legal handgun and concealed carry permit. Anyone seeing such an action taking place is authorized to stop the vehicle and making a Citizen’s Arrest AND use Deadly Force to accomplish theat. That is why I go to the pistol range twice a month and even at my advanced age can put a forty HP up a mosquito’s behind at 50 feet. Of course, I did compete at Camp Perry for many years and have the Distinguished Marksman Badge to prove it. Even if you are not armed, but are in your car, you should slam into that fleeing vehicle as hard as you can and hope that they do not have airbags. Get my drift?

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:32am
  …. are you, by any chance, wearing a Super-Hero costume at the moment?
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:42am
  It is phenomenally sad that this is the “advanced society” we have become. We are returning to the Wild West. I shot a pistol for the first time in my life last month. 50 feet and was all over the coke can with the 5 shots I fired. Come and try to get my purse, Thugs.
  
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- gglass
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:11am
  Copatriots
  
  Thank you for becoming a better (armed) citizen of this great country. I would like to point out a common misconception in your post. The old West was not a more dangerous place because most folks carried firearms, but rather quite the opposite… It was a far safer place. We all seem to have this misconception because it is the one perpetuated by every Hollywood Western.
  
  Stats for you:
  
  Dodge City, Abilene, Wichita, Ellsworth and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
  
  The 2007 Uniform Crime Report statistics (Table 6) shows the following statistics for today’s “Gun Safe” cities:
  
  DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
  New York – 496 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents)
  Baltimore – 282 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
  Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)
  
  The Old West is starting to sound like a real improvement!
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:20am
  Thanks GGLASS.
  
  My point was the liberals utopia of their “advanced society” has become the need for us to return to carrying weapons. We didn’t even worry about locking our doors at night when I was a child. Now I’m learning to shoot a pistol. It’s sad what this country has become at the hands of liberals.
  
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barber2
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:14am
Throw the book at these two idiots.

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- joeslick
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:19am
  Cuff them to the bumper and drag them to jail….and take the long way.
  
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momrules
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:13am
That poor lady. I’m glad she wasn’t killed.

The couple that did this need a long, long stay in jail to rethink their actions. After say, 30 years, will she still love him?

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- copatriots
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:45am
  Probably so, MOM. But he will be lovin’ Bubba.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:51am
  Copatriots!! Good to see you back. Are you back in Texas now?
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:08am
  Thank you! It’s been crazy busy. Yes, I’m currently in Texas. Thank the Lord! Will be back and forth for awhile though.
  
  How are things with you? Have you been keeping things sane around here? ;)
  
  Early voted in Colorado! I can’t wait for the sun to rise tomorrow.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:30am
  Things are good in my part of East Texas. I’m getting ready to go vote right now. Out where I live there won’t be many folks at the polling place, there just aren’t that many people………no lines.
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 6, 2012 at 10:42am
  I drove through East Texas en route to Pensacola a few weeks ago. Was reminded how beautiful and blessedly remote it is. Wish we could move there but hubby needs to be closer to an airport with direct flights.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on November 6, 2012 at 9:10am
Two less Obama votes in Georgia!

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