Texan granny chases down thief

FORT WORTH, Texas - Unholstering her cell phone from her bra, a tough-talking Texas woman chased down a purse snatcher in her car while calling police.

"Put it on the hood, now!" Val Renfro is heard yelling on the police recording after she got her man. "You give me my purse, right now."

Renfro, 65, had finished shopping at a Fort Worth office supply store and was getting into her car when a man shoved her twice, grabbed her purse and ran, according to a police report.

That's when the grandmother of four reached for her phone, which she always keeps tucked into her bra, and called police.

While talking to the operator, Renfro drove after the fleeing man.

At one point, she apparently nudges the man with her car. The man tells her if she rolls down her window, he'll return the purse. "Like hell I will," she yells.

Onlookers eventually cornered the man near a movie theatre.

Renfro said she later ran into the suspect at the police station, where he apologised to her. She said she accepted his apology.

"I don't have any animosity toward him," Renfro told local newspapers. "Who am I to be the judge of him?"

Police identified the suspect as Ricky Lee Sample, 47. He remained in the Tarrant County Jail on Wednesday on a charge of aggravated robbery as well as a parole violation. His bail was set at $20,000.

-AP