SPRINGFIELD -- Police have arrested a Panama City man for a purse snatching, according to Springfield Police Department press release.
Springfield police arrested Richard David Seaborn, 30, for strong-arm robbery Tuesday in his Panama City home Tuesday at about 3 p.m. About an hour earlier, police heard a woman screaming for help near Everitt Avenue and U.S. 98 while two men pursued another on foot. The victim would later identify Seaborn in a photo line-up as the man fleeing the scene, police said.
Officers learned the victim had been walking toward the Exxon at 3100 E. Bus. 98, when a man approached her. He asked for some money then struck her on the shoulder and tried to snatch her purse. The contents poured out onto the ground. The man grabbed the victim’s billfold out of the pile and ran, police reported.
Seaborn was located at his home on East Sixth Court and arrested for strong-arm robbery and taken to Bay County Jail. He was also on probation from a previous criminal offense.