Guilty pleas in purse snatchings

WARREN — A 20-year-old woman pleaded guilty to participating in five purse snatchings from older women in parking lots May 28-31.

Destiny E. Coots, 20, of 645 Center South Road in Leavittsburg, pleaded Tuesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to four counts of theft from an elderly person and one count of robbery. She will be sentenced after the county Adult Probation Department conducts a presentence investigation. She could get up to nine years in prison.

Coots and two male accomplices took purses from women between the ages of 65 and 84 in the parking lot of the Elm Road Uni Mart gas station, Aldi’s grocery store and Super Kmart on state Route 46 in Howland and the Mahoning Avenue Giant Eagle in Warren.