Repentant purse snatcher sentenced to time served

EASTON, Pa. (AP) – A down-and-out Pennsylvania purse snatcher told a judge he changed his mind halfway through the crime, and was sentenced to the time he has served in jail since the aborted January robbery.
Sixty-year-old Steven Dowling told a Northampton County judge on Tuesday that the woman fell because she pulled on her purse and he let her keep it, saying, “It kind of hit me right then: ‘I’m not doing this.'”
The Upper Black Eddy man says he was too broke to