Granny fights off purse snatcher

SANTA FE POLICE SAY THREE MEN LOOKING FOR SOME EASY MONEY PICKED THE WRONG TARGET. POLICE SAY T...  More »

SANTA FE POLICE SAY THREE MEN LOOKING FOR SOME EASY MONEY PICKED THE WRONG TARGET. POLICE SAY THE THREE TRIED TO SNATCH AN ELDERLY WOMAN'S PURSE AT A GAS STATION. BUT AS SANTA FE BUREAU CHIEF RAY SEVA SHOWS US...THE GREAT- GRANDMOTHER PUT A FIGHT. YOU'LL HAVE TO FORGIVE 83-YEAR OLD BERNIE GARCIA FOR USING A WALKING-CANE TODAY. YESTERDAY EVENING SHE WAS IN FINE SHAPE. BUT POLICE SAY SOMEONE TRIED TO SNATCH HER PURSE AS SHE WAS PUMPING GAS AT THE 'SMITH'S'SUPERMARKET ON CERRILLOS ROAD. 'He grabbed my arm where I had my purse, trying to get my purse. And that's when I said, 'Why should I let him have it?' OH...GARCIA LET HIM HAVE IT, ALRIGHT. 'There was still gas in the pump, you know? I was squirting him with it.' SHE WAS SQURITING 20-YEAR OLD ANGELO TRUJILLO. TWO OTHER MEN, 28-YEAR OLD JODY MARTINEZ AND 27-YEAR OLD JULIAN ROMERO, WERE SITTING IN A NEARBY CAR. POLICE SAY ALL THREE HATCHED THE PLAN TO ROB AN OLD WOMAN. TRUJILLO EVEN DRAGGED GARCIA SEVERAL YARDS BEFORE GIVING UP, BECAUSE GARCIA SIMPLY WOULDN'T LET GO OF HER PURSE. 'All my papers and my identifications and things are there. And I was fighting for what was mine.''You weren't gonna let him take it, huh?''No. Hell no. Not if I could help it. But that's when I fell on the ground.' THE THREE WERE QUICKLY ARRESTED ABOUT 10-MILES AWAY ON HIGHWAY 84/285. 'Would you fight again-if something happens?''I'll fight again. If I have the strength that I had last night, I would fight them again.' IN SANTA FE, RAY SEVA, EYEWITNESS NEWS FOUR. GARCIA SAYS OTHER THAN A BIG BRUISE ON HER LEFT HIP, A FEW SCRAPES ON HER HANDS AND A FEW ACHY MUSCLES, SHE'S DOING JUST  « Less