Teen girl crawls into bathroom stall, steals purse, say N.M. cops

(CBS/AP) SANTA FE, N.M. - How low can you go?

Try this: A New Mexico teenage girl is facing a larceny charge after a Santa Fe woman says the 15-year-old crawled inside her stall in a grocery store bathroom, and robbed her.

KOAT-TV reports that Santa Fe police arrested the girl on Sunday for stealing the woman's purse, which was sitting on the bathroom floor at an Albertson's grocery store.

The woman told police the store's customers saw what was going on and chased the teen across the road and held her down until police arrived.

Police in Rio Rancho say they there's been of rash of recent purse snatchings targeting elderly women at grocery stores.

Santa Fe police Lt. Louis Carlos said after the teen was arrested she spat on her handcuffs to try to slip out of them.