Police accuse heroin addict of making purse-snatching a 9-to-5 thing

A 21 year old drug addict was arrested yesterday by Warsaw police and accused of robbing around 50 women of their purses within the past six months. His technique, allege police, was to grab older womens' bags out of their hands, and if they resisted, to beat them. "He treated the attacks like normal, everyday work. He set his alarm clock at 6 a.m. and hit the streets to commit assaults," police officers report. The thief is a heroin addict. "It's an expensive drug, so he needed a constant inflow of cash," police explain. To date the suspect has been charged with 32 crimes. (Zycie, p. 5) A.K.