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Police ID suspects who prayed with woman in Clarksville church while stealing from her purse

Police ID suspects who prayed with woman in Clarksville church while stealing from her purse

Two of the four suspects in the theft from an elderly woman at Hilldale Baptist Church on Feb. 9, 2022. (CPD, contributed) Photo: Clarksville Now


CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) –Detectives with the Clarksville Police Department have identified two of the four women they say stole from a 78-year-old woman’s purse while she prayed with them last month.

According to a news release from CPD spokesperson Scott Beaubien, arrest warrants for identity theft and theft charges have been taken out on the following individuals: 23-year-old Antonio Marquise Crockett Jr. and 29-year-old Myesha Lasha Doss.

Myesha Lasha Doss, 29. (CPD, contributed)

At about 6 p.m. on Feb. 9, four women entered Hilldale Baptist Church and approached the older woman.

After a short conversation, one of the women asked the victim to pray with her. “While they were praying, the second female rummaged through the victim’s purse and stole her wallet,” Beaubien said.

Antonio Marquise Crockett Jr., 23. (CPD, contributed)

Police said the suspects then went to Sam’s Club and purchased several gift cards with the victim’s credit card.

Crockett Jr., a transgender woman, is the suspect in the video with the long braids and plaid jacket, the news release said. Doss is the suspect seen on video taking the wallet out of the victim’s purse, Beaubien continued.

Both Crockett and Doss have outstanding warrants in other jurisdictions in Tennessee for similar crimes of theft and identity theft, the news release said.

Crockett has an address in Nashville, and Doss has an address in San Marcos, Texas, the news release continued.

The warrants taken out by the Clarksville Police Department are active, and anyone who knows of their whereabouts has been asked to call 911.

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