The silver lining to the depressing report that a 72-year-old woman was robbed—at gunpoint—for only two dollars in Farmingville, Long Island: Cops arrested a suspect. According to the police, Ryan Mercorella, 24, allegedly "drove up to a woman who was walking in the Kmart parking lot on Ocean Avenue about 3:40 p.m. Sunday... and asked her for change of a $10 bill. When she said she didn't have any money, Mercorella threatened to kill her, police said, and pulled out what appeared to be a handgun. The woman then opened her wallet, and Mercorella removed two dollars from it before driving off." Newsday reports that Mercorella was charged with first-degree robbery plus a number of other crimes.
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