Thief leaves his ID in victim's pants

• Tweet

EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A would-be laundry thief made work easier for police in Edmonton, Alberta, when he left his wallet and identification in his intended victim's pants pocket.

An unidentified man in a subdivision told police he checked his laundry hanging outside on a clothesline Monday morning and spotted someone discarding old dirty clothes and putting on clean ones from the line.

The resident confronted the man and demanded he put his own clothes back on. The thief did and fled, and the resident said while he was waiting for police, retrieved his own clothes to rewash and found the wallet.

Investigators matched the description to an attempted home robbery nearby two hours earlier, the Edmonton Sun said.

In that incident, a woman said she discovered a man in her bedroom holding her laptop computer and cellphone. The thief left empty handed, police said.

Police are looking for a 32-year-old man with no fixed address in both theft attempts, the report said.