JP authorities search for purse snatchers

FOX 8 received this news release by email from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Friday afternoon:

Sheriff Newell Normand reports, on June 26, 2013, an off-duty JPSO Reserve officer, while working a paid detail at the Hong Kong Food Market, at 925 Behrman Hwy. in Terrytown was alerted by the store's owner that her purse containing a large sum of U.S. Currency had been stolen by whom she believed was a group of individuals around