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Woman In Wheelchair Robbed On Sunbeam

POSTED: Monday, December 8, 2008
UPDATED: 9:49 pm EST December 8, 2008

Police have been searching for answers after a woman in a wheelchair was robbed while on her way home from an area pharmacy and ATM.

Antoinette Roland, of Mandarin, was angry but thankful to be alive on Monday after becoming a robbery victim last weekend.

"I'm just glad I'm living," Roland said.

The 55-year-old is disabled and lives most of her life in an electric wheelchair to get around. The victim said she has been riding in her electric wheelchair since the beginning of the year. Before that, she said she had to get around using a crutch.

She was in her wheelchair on Saturday when someone decided to rip her off.

"Young man runs up behind me and says, 'Give me what you got,'" Roland said.

She said she had just shopped at the CVS pharmacy on San Jose Boulevard and taken out money at an ATM from across the street, but when she headed back home down Sunbeam Road the stranger approached.

"I had my credit card Social Security gives us, and I was trying to get my card out and he said, 'No. Hand it all to me,' and he said, 'Don't look back, just keep going,' and that's what I did," Roland said. "I didn't look back, cause I'm glad he didn't hurt me or hit me in the back of the head, or he could have stabbed me."

The robber got away with about $140, which Roland said is $140 million to someone like her on a fixed budget.

She said she believes crooks like the one who took advantage of her simply don't care about who they harm.

"Why would you do this? Why can't you get a job, if it ain't nothing but flipping burgers or something, you'd have your own money, you wouldn't have to go around robbing somebody else or taking from someone else," Roland said.

Police are working to find the man who robbed Roland. Anyone with information that could help is asked to call Crimestoppers at 866-845-TIPS.
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