PORT CHESTER - She comes from well-to-do Old Greenwich, Conn., but police said the 21-year-old carried a stolen pocketbook while she strolled through Port Chester's Fourth of July celebration.
Port Chester police said Bridget Palazzo of 27 Richmond Drive was seen walking with the pocketbook that was stolen from people setting up on Neuton Avenue to watch fireworks at the Port Chester High School football field at 9:10 p.m. The bag contained credit cards and cash, police said.
The victim saw a woman disappearing into the crowd carrying the pocketbook and ran after her screaming "my pocketbook," police said.
Police in the area caught Palazzo with the bag, police said. She was charged with felony fourth-degree criminal possesson of stolen property.
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