According to the Chico Police Department (CPD), an arrest was made Monday stemming from April when a woman was assaulted and her purse containing $60,000 worth of cash and debit cards inside was stolen.

According to CPD, a woman was shopping with her boyfriend at the Chico Marketplace when a masked man punched her in the face and stole her purse before fleeing the scene in a vehicle.

The woman reported that her purse contained approximately $60,000 in cash and debit cards from her Camp Fire Settlement that she had cashed earlier in the day.

CPD says the woman's boyfriend, Nicholas Fitzgerald, 27, became a suspect in the robbery due to the circumstances in which it happened.

CPD's Violence Suppression Unit (VSU) investigated the robbery and found evidence that Fitzgerald, along with Jesse McLaughlin, 33, had conspired to rob the victim of her Camp Fire Settlement.

McLaughlin was already in custody at the Butte County Jail on unrelated charges. He has been served with an arrest warrant for violations of robbery and conspiracy.

Fitzgerald was arrested and booked without incident into the Butte County Jail on conspiracy and robbery charges.