Local News in Brief : 2 Teen-Agers Held in Robbery of Woman, 83
Two Northridge teen-agers have been identified as suspects in a robbery during which an 83-year-old woman was run over by a car when she refused to let go of her purse, Los Angeles police said Monday.
Police said Michael P. Kellet, 19, and Richard Phillips, 18, were arrested Sunday night when a patrol officer spotted them in a car matching the description of the vehicle used in the robbery the night before.
The pair were held at the Devonshire jail in lieu of $250,000 bail each.
The woman, Freda Crawford, was in critical but stable condition Monday at Holy Cross Hospital, officials said.
Police said she was robbed at 6 p.m. Saturday in a Hughes Market parking lot at Devonshire Street and Balboa Boulevard in Granada Hills. Authorities said she was putting groceries in her car when an occupant of another car reached out and tried to grab her purse.
Police said the elderly woman clung to the purse and was dragged 40 feet before the car swerved and she was run over.
They said evidence found in the teen-agers’ car links them also to the snatching of a 72-year-old woman’s purse in Northridge earlier Saturday.
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