A 23-year-old Hoboken man has been arrested for three overnight purse snatching within one hour last month, Police Chief Steven Aguiar announced.
On November 7th at approximately 11:50 p.m., Hoboken police responded to the 50 block of Garden Street, where a victim reported her purse had been stolen after she dropped it, the department said in a statement.
At approximately 12:30 a.m. on November 8th, officers responded to the area of First and Hudson Streets, where a man ran up behind a woman, grabbed her purse, and fled before stealing a scooter on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus.
About 10 minutes later, a third incident was reported on the 900 block of Garden Street, where a man matching the previous descriptions, grabbed another woman’s purse, and ran off. No serious injuries were reported…