Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and University Police Department are searching for three men who stole the purses of two women on 23rd and G streets on Friday afternoon.
The women were robbed near the Vern Express shuttle stop at about 2:55 p.m., according to a campus security alert.
The suspects are three black men who were driving a “tan or champagne” Pontiac. One man was between 20 and 35 years old and was wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and sunglasses. Another was 20 to 35 years old with a medium build and was wearing a baseball cap, according to the alert. There was no additional description for the third suspect.