Man in Grinch Mask Robs Woman Outside Showcase Cinema

A man wearing a Grinch mask forcibly took a woman’s purse Sunday afternoon in the Showcase Cinema parking lot and then fled into the woods, toward Lowell Street.

The woman and her husband had parked and were walking to the Woburn cinema at about 12:30 p.m., according to police. They said the suspect was 6-foot-2 and about 240 pounds.