Purse Thief Tackles And Punches Victim Outside Bodega, Police Say

EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for the woman who threw another woman to the ground and ran off with her purse.

The 30-year-old woman was standing outside a bodega near Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues around 7:50 p.m. when her attacker lunged, police said.

The 30-year-old was knocked to the ground and punched multiple times before the woman grabbed her purse — which contained her debit card — and fled the scene, police said.

Police are now looking for the purse thief, whom they describe as a woman in a yellow shirt, black hat, black pants and black sandals.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.

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