Woman Dragged From SUV As Mugger Tries To Escape With Her Purse In Port Jefferson Station: Police

PORT JEFFERSON STATION, NY — A 64-year-old woman was dragged by a vehicle during a robbery in Port Jefferson Station in broad daylight on Wednesday, Suffolk police said.

The woman was walking in the parking lot of TJ Maxx on Nesconset Highway at around 1 p.m., when a man in a 2001 Chevrolet SUV drove up to her, got out, and grabbed her purse, but she held onto it as he got back into the vehicle and started to drive away, according to police.

The woman was dragged for a short distance before she let go of the purse, and she ended up being taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

A short time later, officers from the 6th Precinct in Selden found SUV, and tried to pull it over on CR-83 in Selden, but the driver fled southbound before crashing it on Horseblock Road, just west of CR-83, in Farmingville, according to police.

Officers arrested Mark Callahan, who sustained self-inflicted stab wounds, and was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Detectives charged Callahan, 53, of Mount Sinai, with second-degree robbery, and he will be arraigned on a later date.

They are asking anyone with information about the robbery to call the 6th Squad in Selden at 631-854-8652.