CHICOPEE, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – A Chicopee woman said three men stole her wallet in broad daylight. Now, she’s speaking exclusively to Western Mass News in hopes of warning other women.
Katherine DiFranco was picking up some groceries at Stop and Shop on Memorial Drive in Chicopee around 11:30 a.m. one morning last week. Once she got into her car to drive away, a man on the other side of the car tried getting her attention.
“He wasn’t even talking. He was just mumbling, ya know,” DiFranco said.
In surveillance video Chicopee Police shared with us from that day, you can see three men circling the parking lot and one of them made a move once DiFranco got into her car. You see him spraying something on DiFranco’s tire and walking away, then a second man came to alert her. Now, while DiFranco is trying to figure out what the man is trying to tell her, the man who sprayed the tire comes back and is seen in the video getting into her car.
“I left the door open, on the driver’s side,” DiFranco added.
Police said a third man, seen in the video, was keeping watch. DiFranco then got back into the car and drove away. An hour later, DiFranco figured out what she just fell victim to.
“My wallet was gone, so right away, I had to make all kinds of calls, but they did use my card,” DiFranco explained.
DiFranco told Western Mass News that the perpetrators racked up more than $2,000 on her credit cards. Now, she’s spent the past week cancelling her cards and trying to clean up…
