Police: Man stole $20K in purses from Bentley; broke into RV during eclipse in Palm Beach

A man took advantage of the recent partial solar eclipse to steal from a recreational vehicle, just days after he also took a bag of valuable purses from a Bentley on Worth Avenue, Palm Beach police said.

According to arrest reports, the 21-year-old Hallandale Beach man nabbed a brown paper bag with four purses worth about $20,000 total from the Bentley on April 3. Days later, he slipped into an RV parked along South Ocean Boulevard for the celestial event on April 8.

Palm Beach police said in the first incident, a woman parked her white, four-door Bentley in the 300 block of Worth Avenue and went into Only Authentics to ask about selling or consigning four Chanel purses that were on the front passenger seat of her car.

The woman was in the store for about an hour before leaving. When she got to her home in Boca Raton, she realized the handbags were missing, police said. While she didn't have serial numbers for the missing bags, the woman gave police photos of the four missing purses: a pink Chanel bag with gold straps worth $8,000, a silver Chanel bag worth $4,000, a vintage blue-patterned Chanel bag worth $6,000 and a blue and white Chanel purse worth $2,000.