WEALTHY GRANNY PICKPOCKET TARGETS CHINATOWN

A WEALTHY Florida senior has been on a pickpocketing rampage through New York's Chinatown because she "hates Chinese people." Ha Vasko, 67, a Vietnamese refugee told cops after she was pinched March 21--her fourth such arrest--that she is not keen on the Chinese, the New York Post reports.
"They sell fake stuff, take the money and send the money back home," Vasko told the officers.

"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 is a retired restaurateur and owns a $400,000 home in Melbourne, Fla., with her retired-businessman husband, John. But more recently she has been preying on people in Chinatown, most recently lifting $500 out of a woman's fanny pack.
SCOURGE OF CHINATOWN