A Herrin man was sentenced in Jackson County Court Tuesday to four years in state prison after pleading guilty back in October to a Class 3 felony charge of theft from a person.

Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Carr says Devale J. Fredericks will also serve one year of mandatory supervised release after he gets out of prison.

Carr says on April 19, Fredericks grabbed an elderly woman’s change purse from her hands and ran away with it while the woman was sitting inside a Murphysboro business. Surveillance video from the business showed Fredericks grabbing the woman’s change purse out of her hands and running out of the business.