A homeless woman who attacked two women in a parking lot at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center and tried to steal their purses and vehicles was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison.
Andrea K. Sablan, 38, pleaded guilty last month in Clark County Superior Court to first-degree robbery stemming from the Oct. 9 incident.
At about 6:30 p.m., Clark County sheriff’s deputies responded to the hospital at 2211 N.E. 139th St., for a reported robbery. Dawn Chapman had called 911 to report that a woman, later identified as Sablan, attacked her and a co-worker, Earlydawn Hopkins, in the parking lot, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Chapman was sitting in her running vehicle, she said, when Sablan opened the driver’s side door and ordered her to get out. Chapman refused, rolled down her passenger’s side window and shouted for help at Hopkins, who was sitting in her vehicle nearby, the affidavit states.
Sablan reached across Chapman and grabbed her purse. But Hopkins was already out of her vehicle and reached through Chapman’s passenger’s side window to stop Sablan. They struggled a bit before Sablan let go, court records say.
Hopkins and Sablan tussled outside Chapman’s vehicle, during which Sablan kicked Hopkins in the groin and bit her right palm. She then ran to Hopkins’ running vehicle and started to back out of the parking spot. Hopkins reached in through the driver’s side window and shut off the car, according to court documents.
Hopkins tried to pull Sablan out of her vehicle, but Sablan climbed over to the passenger’s seat, kicked Hopkins in the chest and fled with Hopkins’ purse. However, Sablan left her own purse at the scene with her identification. She was located about a block away from the hospital, the affidavit states.
Judge Bernard Veljacic sentenced Sablan to 49 months in prison, court records show and 18 months of community custody.
