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Police say suspect hit 91-year-old drugstore cashier
Quick ReadLast week, police said the man went into the Rite Aid in East Northport and punched a 91-year-old cashier in the chest.
Photo credit: Newsday File / Viorel Florescu | Shaun Collins, a former heroin drug addict, punched a 91-year-old woman and robbed her, police said. (July 24, 2008)
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A man who police said is homeless was arrested in connection with a string of drugstore robberies, including one at an East Northport Rite Aid last week where a 91-year-old cashier was punched in the chest, Suffolk police said.
Shaun Collins, 34, was arrested by Nassau police in connection with a robbery of a Hicksville Walgreens Friday - just a day after the East Northport robbery and after...
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