ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - When an Albuquerque woman confronted a masked intruder in her home early Friday morning his attempt at disguise failed, according to Albuquerque police. 
 
 The victim told police the man broke in through the back of her home nearly Coors Boulevard NW and Central Avenue. 
 
 The guy was dressed in black, but despite a purple bandana pulled over his face she suspected it was her grandson. 
 
 She says he then grabbed her setting off a struggle during which she ripped off the bandana revealing his face and confirming it was her grandson Thomas Clark. 
 
 The woman told police that Clark shoved her to the floor, grabbed her purse and ran. Police arrested him about four hours later at his parents' home. 
 
 He eventually confessed to the robbery, according to police, and said he did it because his two friends convinced him it was a way to get money to go to a local casino. 
 
 Clark, 22, was arraigned on felony charges Saturday in Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court where a judge set his bond at $15,000. 
 
 
 
 The victim told KRQE News 13 she's doing OK and is recovering from cuts and bruises on her wrist and neck after being thrown to the ground. 
 
 According to the criminal complaint this isn't the first time Clark has broken into his grandma's house. She told police he stole a TV from her last year. 
 
 ||||| Pamela Dearinger was lying low and getting some R&R Monday after an incident last week that included being thrown to the floor, getting her arm bloodied and having her purse stolen – by her masked grandson in her own home, police say. 
 
 Sounds of the TV wafted from an open front window of Dearinger’s home on the West Side on Monday afternoon. She responded to a persistent knocking with a snappy, “I don’t want to talk to you!” followed by a quick slam. 
 
 Who could blame her for wanting some uninterrupted TV time? That’s what she was after when her solace was interrupted Friday by her grandson, Thomas A. Clark, 22, whose mother described him as an unemployed high school dropout with a drug addiction. According to a criminal complaint, Clark went to a casino with some friends after the robbery. 
 
 According to court records, it all started when Clark, who told police he was pressured by two male friends, showed up at Dearinger’s house at midafternoon wearing black clothes and a purple bandanna around his face. 
 
 As Dearinger sat in the front room watching TV, Clark entered the back door. Once inside, he grabbed her and the two began to tussle. Dearinger grabbed the bandanna and pulled it off, revealing his identity. Clark threw her to the floor, grabbed her purse and ran out the back door, according to the complaint. 
 
 When police showed up, Dearinger, visibly shaken, had cuts and blood on her wrist and her mouth, court records show. 
 
 Dearinger estimated the value of her purse and its contents – medication, keys, a passport, sunglasses and her checkbook – at $507, with the purse itself costing about $200. 
 
 With the multicolored bag in hand, Clark and his friends went to an unspecified casino, but soon afterward asked to be taken home, according to the complaint. It was not clear whether any of money stolen from the purse went toward funding any gambling. 
 
 Police showed up at Clark’s home about 6:30 p.m. Friday, and initially he denied involvement, saying he was with a girl at a casino when his grandmother was robbed, but eventually he admitted the robbery, according to court records. 
 
 He was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center, charged with aggravated residential burglary, larceny, and tampering with evidence. His bail was set at $15,000. 
 
 Dearinger told police it wasn’t the first time she had been victimized by her grandson. She told police that about a year ago, Clark had burglarized her home and stolen a television. 
 
 Reached by phone Monday, Clark’s mother, 40-year-old Ginger Robinson, a caseworker with a social services agency, said she was devastated by what her son had confessed to having done. 
 
 She also said Clark had not gotten along with his paternal grandmother since he was 7 or 8 and that he harbored resentment against her ex-mother-in-law. She said she has hired a lawyer for her son and hopes he will get into a drug treatment program and receive counseling.
– An Albuquerque grandmother thought she recognized a masked burglar who entered her home on Friday morning—and when Pamela Dearinger managed to rip off his bandana, her suspicions were confirmed: It was her grandson, police say. Thomas Clark, 22, came in through the back door while she was watching TV, she says; he grabbed her, and that's when she pulled off the bandana. He knocked her down and stole her purse—Dearinger pegged the value of it and its contents at $507—before fleeing, reports the Albuquerque Journal. Police caught up with him at his parents' house several hours afterward, KRQE reports. Why the desperate need for cash? Police say Clark told them his friends suggested it would be a great way to fund a trip to a nearby casino. Worse still, he's broken in once before to steal a TV, his grandmother says in the criminal complaint. Clark now faces felony charges. His grandmother was bruised and received cuts to her wrist and mouth in the altercation, but she says she's OK.