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A New Jersey woman faces robbery charges after a casino surveillance system captured her allegedly stealing a purse, one week after she allegedly committed another robbery at the same casino.
Pennsylvania State Police say on Feb. 27 Cynthia Pisko, 55, of Haddonfield, grabbed the purse off the arm of a woman playing slot machines at the Parx casino in Bensalem.
Casino surveillance shows Pisko sitting behind the victim watching her play the machines shortly before 3 a.m. Pisko then gets up and walks around the bank of slot machines where the woman is playing, comes up behind her, grabs her purse and runs, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The woman chased after her, while yelling for help, prompting Pisko to drop the purse, police said.
When the woman caught up with the suspect, she grabbed the purse Pisko was carrying, police said. Pisko said the purse was not the woman’s and that she had dropped her purse.
Pisko is then seen on video trying to leave the casino at the West exit. Casino security stops her and then lets her go.
But after the woman provided a description of Pisko, police discovered that the suspect was wearing the same jacket she wore during the course of another alleged robbery. Pisko was charged in that incident on Feb. 25.
The earlier robbery took place Feb. 19 when Pisko allegedly ripped a $281.66 voucher out of the hand of a woman playing slots at Parx. On that visit, police say that Pisko arrived at the casino and inserted her players’ card into a slot machine.
About 10 minutes later, two women arrived at the casino and started playing slot machines. One of the women moved from machine to machine, each time cashing out her voucher, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Shortly after the women arrived, Pisko is seen on surveillance watching one of the women at nearby slot machine. When the victim starts to walk away, Pisko approaches the woman from behind and rips the voucher out of her hand and runs toward the exit, according to the affidavit.
The victim was physically unable to chase Pisko, police said, but she stopped another woman and told her what happened. That woman chased Pisko but lost her.
At about 11:15 p.m. Pisko cashed out the voucher and left the casino, police said.
Pisko was arraigned Thursday before Bensalem District Judge Joseph Falcone on charges of robbery by force, theft, receiving stolen property in each of the incidents. She was released after posting 10 percent of $70,000 bail.
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