MIAMI – A man accused of snatching a woman's purse in Miami used an unusual distraction to help him get away with it -- an iguana.
According to a police report, a woman was in the parking lot of a Navarro Discount Pharmacy on Northwest Seventh Street last weekend when she was startled by an iguana that scurried under her car.
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While the woman was "focused on the iguana" and trying to see where the large lizard went, a man approached her and snatched her purse from her arm, the report said.
The man, later identified by police as Hiraldo Valle Jr., got into a black Volkswagen and drove away.
Three days later, an officer spotted the car and attempted to pull the driver over, but he refused to stop and led police on a chase that ended in a crash. Valle, 50, was behind the wheel, the report said.
Police said they identified Valle as the man who stole the woman's purse from surveillance video of the crime. He faces a charge of robbery by sudden snatching.