Chicago police last week issued an alert about two instances of thieves swiping people’s cellphones from tables at restaurants in fashionable areas.
Police said in both incidents, the thief walked into a restaurant and approached someone sitting with their cellphone on the table.
Each time, the thief dropped something on the floor to distract the victim, put a bag on the table covering the victim’s cellphone, mumbled to the victim, picked up the item from the floor, and took the bag along with the victim’s cellphone…