Purse Snatch-Grand Theft in Daylight Hours Wednesday

A Berkeley woman lost an iPod, cell phone and other valuables when an assailant snatched her purse and fled in the late afternoon Wednesday.

The woman was walking westbound on Prince Street near California Street when she felt someone yank the bag off her shoulder from behind, police said.

She turned to see a man holding her black and white purse. An extensive search of the area failed to turn up the assailant, whom she described to police as white or Hispanic, 5 feet, 10 inches tall, about 180 pounds with a brown ponytail to his mid-back and wearing a red hoodie and baggy blue jeans.