A witness chased down and was able to retrieve a purse ripped from a 74-year-old woman Saturday as she left a Walgreens in Burbank.
The woman was confronted by a man in dark shorts who snatched her purse on San Fernando Boulevard and fled toward Spazier Avenue, Burbank police said.
A witness proceeded to chase after the suspect, who was described as a bald, 20- to 30-year-old white or Latino man, up the street and yelled for him to drop the purse, said Burbank police Sgt. Darin Ryburn.