Now, police on New York's Long Island have made a bust in her case.
Critelli works as a cashier in a Rite Aid.
Police say she was punched in the chest by a bandit as he grabbed cash from her register.
But the grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of 13 refused medical attention and finished her shift.
Police I-D the suspect as Shaun Collins, who was later arrested in an unrelated case.