In this Occupy Wall Street era, it was a crime against the 1 percent: Two people grabbed a handful of purses worth more than $10,00o Saturday night in the Nordstrom store in Walnut Creek and sprinted for the exit.
But they wouldn't get far.
A pair of holiday shoppers braved blasts of pepper spray from one of the alleged thieves before subduing him until police arrived.
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