A 39-year-old St. Catharines resident has been charged after officers say a lady was dragged by a neighborhood police station whereas attempting to cease a person from allegedly stealing her purse.
The incident occurred on Might 30 at Niagara Regional Police Service’s (NRPS) 1 District at 198 Welland Ave.
Police stated they had been known as to the constructing’s foyer for an assault in progress.
There, officers discovered a person who was “acting erratically” when he allegedly approached a 77-year-old woman who was sitting on a bench.
This particular person then “proceeded to ramble and make incoherent conversation,” they stated.
The girl didn’t have interaction with the suspect, whom police stated paced all through the entrance foyer.
Police stated that the suspect then violently grabbed the girl’s purse when she tried to retrieve it from the bench.
They stated that the sufferer struggled to carry on to her purse because the suspect began fleeing in the direction of the primary entry door of the entrance foyer whereas firmly holding the girl’s purse.
Police stated that the sufferer, who refused to let go of her bag, fell to the ground whereas nonetheless clutching her purse and was dragged by the station’s foyer, entrance vestibule, and in the direction of the concrete steps in entrance of the constructing.
Officers intervened at that time and arrested the suspect.
Additionally they recovered the girl’s purse and its contents.
The sufferer sustained critical accidents. She was taken to a neighborhood hospital.
Ajitsingh Chandel, 39, of St. Catharines, has been charged with theft. He was held in custody pending a Might 31 bail listening to.
Anybody with info is requested to contact NRPS at 905-688-4111, choice 3, ext. 1002200, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.
