What to Know
- Police say they've arrested a 37-year-old Bronx woman in the robbery of an elderly woman in a wheelchair
- The robbery was captured on surveillance video
- The victim told NBC 4 the robber should "get a J-O-B like I had to"
Police say they've found and arrested the woman captured on surveillance video snatching the purse of an elderly woman in a wheelchair outside a Bronx building.
The 37-year-old suspect, Adrianne Terry of the Bronx, was arrested Tuesday on charges of grand larceny and petit larceny.
The victim, 86-year-old Bernice Starnes, was sitting in a wheelchair outside a building near East 179th Street and Marmion Avenue in Bronx Park South on Sunday afternoon when the suspect approached her and began talking to her, police said. Video shows the suspect then snatching Starnes' purse and runs off with it. She's then seen disposing of the entire purse in a trash can.
Starnes had some choice words for the thief Monday.
"You need to get a J-O-B like I had to," the victim, Bernice Starnes, said during an interview with NBC 4 New York.
"All I know is that my purse has been taken and my money was taken out of it," said Starnes. "Now I'm finding out that I don't have my benefits card."
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Starnes, who wasn't hurt in the robbery, got a her money and her purse back Monday when community officers from the 48th Precinct returned her money.
Starnes told NBC 4 she doesn't recall ever seeing the woman before.
"I'm 86 years old, I thank God I remember to get up and use the bathroom out of a Pamper. I mean, really," said Starnes.
Attorney information for Terry wasn't immediately available.
Last week, a similar robbery targeting a 93-year-old woman in a wheelchair in Manhattan outraged New Yorkers and prompted a flood of a donations for the victim, who said the $600 in stolen cash was Social Security money that was meant to pay the rent. A 26-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested in the incident, also captured on surveillance camera.
