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Associated Press News Update Report:

Seventy-five-years-old and not afraid of a fight. A little old lady from Hilltop terrace in Northeast is standing up to street crime. She refused to be intimidated by suspected drug dealers and she says to them "I used to start fights in school with the girls and I won every fight and I can use my expertise to fight you on the street here. Fighting is my security and I like fighting" to make the hoodlums leave the area.

Geraldine Marshall lives by a simple philosophy, "I don't believe the bad guys can ever win but they will lose around me cause I will whip em real good cause I say so... They were smoking marijuana... I went down and testified against the tenants and they mugs got put out and good for em."

Holding her two month old great-granddaughter Kaydin, Geraldine describes what the so-called bad girls of her neighborhood did in retaliation for her standing up to them. "They got angry with me. On the 20th, they cut both my tires. Two or three days before this, they scratched my car all up and came to me and said 'hey you want to dance old lady. Got a problem' and I just stared at them hoping for them to leave."

Of course, Geraldine couldn't prove any of her allegations until early this morning when police caught two young women in the act and the police worked with her by apprehending the hoodlums.

"The detective had called me and told me, don't worry, they're watching my car and also said that I may eventually have to take my kids and property and move to a safer neighborhood."

Now Geraldine has to weigh the costs of being a stand up citizen. "They painted the whole front of the windshield and part of the hood. But the main thing was, they put putty in all of the locks and the mirror.... and the gas cap... and they put putty on the windows and wrote [an offensive word]and have gangs attack my car and my children if I contact the cops anymore but the cops was right. I may have to take my kids and property and move to another neighborhood".

Geraldine says her insurance company plans to review her vandalism claim Wednesday but she's confident, she'll be covered.

The two girls suspected of vandalizing Geraldine Marshall's car are sisters. One of them is under age. Geraldine says she intends to testify against the other Wednesday.