Guilty Plea After Former Kansas City Council Lady Brutally Robbed

The most important thing about this story is that beloved political leader Ms. Collins survived the attack. 

The top photo collage via Jackson County reminds us that our readers were DEAD WRONG regarding their assumptions about the crime.

Meanwhile, here's the noteworthy postscript . . .   

Former Kansas City Councilwoman Joanne Collins was 89 when she was dragged to the ground during a March 2025 purse snatching. A 43-year-old man pleaded guilty this week to the crime, court records show.

SUSPECT of Kansas City pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of first-degree robbery of Collins, the first Black woman elected to Kansas City's City Council.

Collins' purse containing $120 in cash, a wallet, bank cards and a phone was taken during the robbery, and Collins suffered a broken shoulder, broken ribs and fingers, and soreness in her recently replaced hip, police previously said.

Locke was arrested days later at a library. He told officers he was hungry and used money from the purse to buy food, according to court documents.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Yahoo: Man sentenced in purse-snatching that injured former KC Councilwoman Collins