Andersons Bay Cemetery. Photo by Linda Robertson.
Senior Sergeant Brian Benn, of Dunedin, said police had taken complaints from three women whose handbags had been stolen from their vehicles as they visited graves at Dunedin's Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Someone was hiding near the cemetery and waiting until the women had left their vehicles and they then ''snuck up and swiped their handbag'', Snr Sgt Benn said.
Two of the complaints were from the weekend, and the other was yesterday, he said.
Acting Senior Sergeant Damion Rangitutia, of Dunedin, said some plain-clothes policemen visited the cemetery yesterday but nobody had been apprehended. Police inquiries were continuing.
