The Brief
- Joseph Hess, 32, is accused of stealing a purse and striking a 76-year-old woman with his car as he fled.
- The hit-and-run left the woman with “multiple compound fractures to her leg,” according to police.
- Hess, a Frankfort, N.Y. native, was arrested days after the incident in Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA – A suspect who was wanted in New York for a hit-and-run that left a 76-year-old woman hospitalized last week was arrested Tuesday near Philadelphia.
What we know:
Joseph Hess, 32, is accused of stealing a purse from a parked car in a McDonald’s parking lot in Ballston, New York.…