Lila Ullom, 85, is still recovering after being thrown on the ground trying to keep a thief from taking her purse in September, but she's not discouraged.
"When I fell I evidently broke a rib," she said.
She and her 90 year old husband were in the parking lot of a grocery story when detectives say 25-year-old Mark Sampayan pushed her to the ground.
"I had my pruse on my arm and I opened the car doors for him and all of sudden somebody grabbed my purse pulled real hard," the grandmother of four said.
"I pulled as hard as I could and we hear these stories ... well, I bet I could pull back, but he was so strong," said Ullom.
Just hours later detectives say Sampayan and two others were spotted on surveillance video going on a shopping spree using Ullom's credit cards.
Detectives eventually caught the suspects.
Sampayan, who has been convicted of theft in the past, is in jail on $250,000 bail. Ullom has a message for them.
"They need to go get a job work like rest of us have all our lives," she siad. " I don't run very good anymore but I would probably go after them."
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