$ 4,300 Purse Stolen In Butler Auction

A thief swiped a designer handbag for $ 4,300, which was auctioned for charity at the Hotel Butler University Clowes Memorial.

Louis Vuitton monogram canvas bag with a pattern of leopard calf cracked and water-snake handles were stolen Monday from a table of 04 hours 45-17:00, "said Police Commissioner Ben Butler Hunter.

"It's very rare to have something like this happens here," said Hunter. "The closest thing I can think is" cookies "is taken once a fundraiser."

The scholarship was established in 2011 to Spotlight silent auction benefit the Indiana AIDS Fund and raise money for HIV / AIDS and testing.

The bag was donated by Saks Fifth Avenue and told one of six such deals in the U.S. proposals $ 1,800 have been initiated.

Hunter said police had no suspects or witnesses port. Butler was a police identity card in traffic in the parking lot, but I do not know if the organizers of the event took a safety in, "he said.Louis Vuitton Purses 2011

"I think it was a crime of opportunity," said Hunter. "Someone just took it and see."

Hunter said that there is almost a thief trying to sell a stock at a local pawn shops.