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<p>PLAINS TWP. &#8212; A man from New Jersey was arraigned Tuesday on charges he forcibly stole a purse from a woman leaving the Mohegan Sun Pocono casino last summer.</p><p>Ryan M. Terrell, 29, of Burleigh, N.J., ran up to a woman in the parking lot and grabbed her purse, causing a minor injury Aug. 1, police say.</p><p>According to a criminal complaint:</p><p>A woman told police she was walking to her vehicle at about 8 p.m. when she heard footsteps coming quickly behind her. She claimed as the footsteps became louder, a man grabbed her purse and ran away.</p><p>She explained her purse was slung around her shoulder and when the man grabbed it, the strap roughly went across the skin of her arm. That caused a slight injury.</p><p>She reported that the thief ran and jumped into a vehicle, where he sat in the driver&#8217;s seat. She approached the vehicle yelling at the thief to return her purse.</p><p>The woman continued to scream as the man looked at her and drove away. She managed to obtain the license plate and a description of the suspect. She said he was wearing a tank top that had &#8220;Got 99&#8221; on it.</p><p>She claimed there was $175 in cash inside the purse, plus credit cards, a cell phone and personal items.</p><p>Police traced the license plate to a vehicle owned by a woman on Stanton Street in Wilkes-Barre. When officers went to the residence, the vehicle was not there.</p><p>Cameras at the casino that night recorded a man that wore a tank top that read: &#8220;Got 99 problems but a bench ain&#8217;t one.&#8221; Police identified Terrell from the video and his player&#8217;s club card he used throughout the night.</p><p>Another camera recorded Terrell walking out of the casino at 7:51 p.m. Aug. 1, and running toward a woman and grabbing her purse at 8.</p><p>Terrell was arraigned by District Judge Ferris Webby in Luzerne County Central Court on charges of robbery and theft. He was jailed at the county lockup for lack of $5,000 bail.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Ed Lewis</p><p>elewis@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

New Jersey man charged with stealing woman’s purse outside casino