Woman Jumped and Robbed Near Old Publix

A woman was jumped and robbed outside the Subway in the Publix shopping center on Lake Worth Road just after 7 p.m. last night.

She told a deputy that she had been in Subway getting a sandwich when she went back to her car, which was parked just outside, to get business cards to give to some of the workers inside. As she turned around to go back into the store, a black man in a white T-shirt approached, shoved her to the ground and took her purse.

The robber, described as a black male between 5’6” and 5’8” with a medium build, jumped into the passenger side of a white mustang with dark-tinted windows and sped west on Lake Worth Road.

The Subway is located in the Town & Country Shopping Center just west of I-95 in the city of Lake Worth. The purse that was stolen contained credit cards, a driver’s license and about $100 in cash, according to the victim.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office canvassed the area but did not find any witnesses.

Crimes and Public Information

The new crime blotter is up. See the right-hand margin for all crimes in Lake Worth yesterday. I immediately filed a request with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office asking for more information on the robbery on Lake Worth Road and the burglary at Third Avenue North. I'm now waiting...

Note that the PBSO redacted all information from a report they gave me in response to a request for information about the burglary at a home on Griswold Drive, in the Lake Osborne area, on August 14. The law, as I read it, does not allow them to do this. The ACLU has been called, the First Amendment Foundation has been called. Lawyers are looking at it. Progress will be made to get compliance with public records laws. It just might be slow.