RFP Staff
♦ “Don’t be carrying wads of cash in an envelope anywhere in Salisbury during the holidays. Avoid toting a pocketbook.” Hans the Elf
The Walmart holiday nightmare never ended on “Black Friday” even in the midst of “saving money and living better” in hard scrabble Salisbury the town now claiming to have created crime and owning a lost cause 10 gig municipal fiber optic network. Our hearts go out to that 71 year-old woman who absently left an envelope with $700 dollars on the counter after purchasing cookies in Subway around 10 a.m. Thursday.
Ten minutes after purchasing the cookies either a tiny bell tinkled in the senior’s early warning system or a sense of emptiness may have visited her when she reached for an envelope no longer there. Immediately she hurried back to Walmart’s Subway restaurant. Feeling overwhelmed and hoping against hope, she eyed the counter, then asked the Subway worker if she noticed an envelope left on the counter. The worker recalled seeing a Black male take the envelope and leave. A surveillance cam recorded him check out the envelope’s contents before he walked over to a woman seated at a Subway table. Soon the pair left. A video still of the couple is posted below.
If anyone recognizes the identity of the couple pictured on the still they are requested to call the Salisbury Police Department at 704-638-5333 or Salisbury-Rowan Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.
