Former Kansas City Councilwoman Joanne Collins was 89 when she was dragged to the ground during a March 2025 purse snatching. A 43-year-old man pleaded guilty this week to the crime, court records show.
Zachary S. Locke of Kansas City pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of first-degree robbery of Collins, the first Black woman elected to Kansas City’s City Council.
Collins’ purse containing $120 in cash, a wallet, bank cards and a phone was taken during the robbery, and Collins suffered a broken shoulder, broken ribs and fingers, and soreness in her recently replaced hip, police previously said…