Bearded Colored Man Dressed As Woman Robs Detroit Walgreens

Detroit, MI - Detroit police say they are looking for a bearded man who robbed a Walgreens drug store at gunpoint. Oh, and they say he was wearing a purple dress and clutching a brown purse at the time of the crime.

It was about 10:50 a.m. Monday morning when the man allegedly walked into the Walgreens in the 20000 block of West 7 Mile Road. Surveillance video provided by police shows that he was aided by a cane.

The suspect is described as a 6-foot tall black man between the ages of 30 and 40. Police say he had a full beard and mustache and weighed about 250 to 280 pounds.

In a release issued Tuesday, police said the man, "Was wearing a black curly haired wig, a purple dress, white shoes, carrying a brown purse and a cane."

The man dressed in purple fled on foot. Police say he had a gun and made off with, "An undisclosed amount of U.S. currency."