Man sentenced for injuring elderly woman while stealing her purse

Staff report

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Kenneth L. Hubbard, 37, of Applecrest Drive in Boardman and Mumford Drive in Youngstown was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for injuring a woman, 73, while stealing her purse in March.

Hubbard pleaded guilty earlier before Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to aggravated robbery and theft from a person in a protected class.

Hubbard grabbed the woman’s purse March 30 in front of the Family Dollar store on Elm Road. She initially refused to give up her purse, and Hubbard dragged her on the ground.

She suffered four fractures to her hip and leg. She had surgery and then needed rehabilitation at another facility for her injuries.

Police captured Hubbard trying to hide in a backyard on Scott Street Northeast. He had cash on him but not the woman’s purse.

Eventually he told police where to find the purse, saying he “wanted the lady to get her pills back,” police said.

Police found the purse under the rear porch of an abandoned Olive Street home and returned it to her. Everything was inside except $200 in cash.