Crime Briefs: Aug. 14

Woman stabbed in Red Bluff

A Red Bluff woman was stabbed in the abdomen on Wednesday, Aug. 11, in Red Bluff, according to the Red Bluff Police Department.

Police arrived at the parking lot of the Veterans Memorial Hall on Oak Street where they found Kristy Turley, 21, bleeding from the abdomen, said the police department.

Officers reported Turley told them she was stabbed by a man unknown to her during an argument that occurred near the Pink Flamingo Tattoo Parlor on Oak Street.

The owner of the parlor, Amy Hanks, told police Turley and another adult female had been involved in a disturbance in the tattoo parlor and that Hanks sprayed Turley with pepper spray, but that Turley was not stabbed during the altercation, said police.

Officers were unable to locate the reported attacker and are still investigating the crime.

Turley was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital where she was listed in stable condition on Thursday, police said.

Shoes taken during robbery

A Red Bluff woman told police that a white, male juvenile knocked her down and stole her purse while she was unloading groceries at at the Grocery Outlet on Main Street in Red Bluff on Wednesday, Aug. 11.

Twila Cordova, 43, of Red Bluff, reported her assailant also took her shoes off her feet, and then fled on foot, police reported.

Cordova, who was not injured during the robbery, told police she believed the boy took her shoes so she could not run after him, said the police department.

Police said the suspect is described as 14 to 17 years old, wearing a red shirt, blue shorts, black hat, with shoulder length hair, approximately 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighing 165 pounds.