Little Old Lady Fights Back

WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- 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.

Geraldine Marshall lives by a simple philosophy, "I don't believe the bad guys can ever win... They were smoking marijuana... I went down and testified against the tenants."

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."

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

"The detective had called me and told me, don't worry, they're watching my car."

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.]"

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.