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Police donate cash to 86-year-old purse-snatching victim

Officers from the NYPD's 48th Precinct donated $110 to the 86-year-old woman who was robbed Sunday while sitting in a wheelchair outside her own apartment building. Bernice Starnes says she was sitting

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Sep 13, 2016, 1:55 AM

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