blotter yesterday.

A thief who stole a Coach handbag from a Victoria Street building will have a lot to chew on this morning after he figures out what to do with a pair of false teeth found inside.

The culprit forced an office door and took the lime green leather bag, containing a brown Coach wallet, a quantity of cash, bank and credit cards, keys, and a set of lower dentures.

Across town a man's black and maroon "Murray'' mountain bike was stolen from Trott Drapery on King Street overnight Saturday. Entry had been forced.

Someone broke into a Suzuki jeep parked in City Hall parking lot on Saturday evening, taking off with a beige-coloured canvas bag containing a cellular telephone, brown wallet, bank and credit cards.

The owner returned to the car to find the bag missing. The means of entry are not known.

A small quantity of cash and an expensive 21 inch gold link chain were stolen from two separate rooms at the Reefs' staff quarters on Saturday.

And a tourist learned the hard way about leaving valuables under the seat of his livery cycle.

The American returned to his cycle after a day at Jobson's Cove to find that an unknown quantity of cash had been stolen.