The Brief

Joseph Hess, 32, is accused of stealing a purse and striking a 76-year-old woman with his car as he fled.

The hit-and-run left the woman with "multiple compound fractures to her leg," according to police.

Hess, a Frankfort, N.Y. native, was arrested days after the incident in Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania.

A suspect who was wanted in New York for a hit-and-run that left a 76-year-old woman hospitalized last week was arrested Tuesday near Philadelphia.

What we know:

Joseph Hess, 32, is accused of stealing a purse from a parked car in a McDonald's parking lot in Ballston, New York.

As he was fleeing the parking lot, investigators believe Hess struck a 76-year-old woman with his vehicle.

The woman suffered "multiple compound fractures to her leg" and remains hospitalized.

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