83 Year Old Woman Fights Off Attacker
A thief well known to police ended up in the arms of the law when he attempted to break into the house and rob 83 year old María de los Ángeles Muñoz, who facing the dangerous man, who didn't think twice to defend her home and her 53 year old niece who was beaten by the thief.

The 34 year old man, identified only by his last name, Flores, has been in and out of police custody at least 20 times, mostly for robbery and assault, tried to break into the Muñoz home located near the rotonda, Y Griega, on the south side of San José shortly after 10:00am.

"My niece called to me that there was a man in the patio. When I went to see, the mand had already broken the lock on the back door and was in the kitchen, hitting my niece with his fist. When he picked up a metal bar to strike her, I confronted him and took the bar fro him", said Doña María, who affirms that she was not scared of bums like Flores.

Doña María sprained her wrist in the altercation to take away the bar from the mans hand.

"When he saw that I wasn't an easy target he decided to go out the patio and jump the fence, running off with a radio that I had outside, but thanks to a valiant efforts of a street vendor who chased the man to the rotonda, caught him and held until police arrived", added Doña María, who was clear that it was not the police who caught the man but the street vendor who caught with him, got into a fight with him and held him until police arrived.

Flores is a well known car thief with more than 20 arrests and stints in jail.