WATCH: Sober House Man Charged With Robbing Elderly Woman

EAST HAVEN, CT —A woman was robbed of her purse this weekend in a store parking lot by a man cops say was living in a sober house.

On Saturday at around 8 p.m., officers were dispatched to the Stop and Shop on Hemingway Ave., for a report of a robbery of an elderly female. When s got there, they spoke with the victim who was with her grandson. She told them that the robbery occurred in the parking lot after she left the store. She said a man came up from behind her and grabbed her wallet out of her hand before running away. She said that she and her grandson ran after him but lost him after he got into a silver sedan, which took off.

But her "quick-thinking" grandson took a picture of the car with his phone which captured the make and model, and the license plate number.

Police identified the suspect as 32-year-old Robert Ende.

Through the investigation, which included surveillance video, police said Ende, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, waited inside Stop and Shop by the exit and followed the woman and her grandson outside after they passed him. Once outside, Ende is seen on video running up from behind and snatching something out of her hands.

Officers went to a sober house on Coe Avenue where Ende lived and while there, saw him drive by "slowly." Police stopped the car at the intersection of Coe and Bradford Avenues. The car he was driving was the same vehicle the victim’s grandson snapped a picture of after the robbery and Ende matched the description of the suspect in the surveillance video. After a one-on-one witness identification, Ende was arrested.

Ende was charged with third-degree robbery and second-degree larceny. Held on $100,000 bond, he's due in court in New Haven today.