Wealthy Old Lady Pick-Pockets Chinese People Because She Hates Them

Old people need to stay off the Facebook and, apparently, out of Chinatown, too.

A well-off Florida senior citizen has been pickpocketing her way through Chinatown, prosecutors charge -- targeting pedestrians for robbery as soon as she gets out of court. "I hate Chinese people," Ha Vasko, 67 -- a former war refugee from Vietnam -- explained to cops when she was busted on March 21, her fourth such arrest and the third that came right after she faced a judge. "They sell fake stuff, take the money and send the money back home," Vasko told the officers, according to a confession made public yesterday. "They get benefit cards and they don't contribute anything back. So I take their money and give it to people who need it. I give it to homeless people who need it," Vasko claimed. A retired restaurateur, Vasko owns a $400,000 home in Melbourne, Fla., with her retired-businessman husband, John. But on an afternoon in June, she was busted at Canal and Mulberry streets after allegedly unzipping a woman's fanny pack and lifting $500. That led to just the first of her four open felony indictments -- a crime spree so unusual, it came to the attention of the Manhattan DA's crime-strategies unit, which targets serial offenders. Prosecutors say that each time Vasko travels here from Florida for a court date, she walks straight from the lower Manhattan courthouse to nearby Chinese neighborhoods, where she's been busted three additional times on charges of jostling and pickpocketing.
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Old woman Ha claims she's a diagnosed kleptomaniac. She's currently being held at Rikers Island on grand larceny, possession of stolen property and jostling charges; Her bail is set at $124,500. She's described as being 5'4" and weighing 458lbs -- wait, that can't be right. But it is. Fat ass!