LYNN – A city man has been arrested in connection with the alleged mugging and savage beating of a great-grandmother on Monday and police say he also had a role in robbing another woman on the same street last week.Nicholas Christian, 30, of 7 Hammond St., was taken into custody around noon Thursday on outstanding drug warrants by the department’s Criminal Investigation Division.While conducting a search warrant at Christian’s home, officers found evidence related to 89-year-old Geneva Sozanski’s beating on Eastern Avenue. As a result, he was charged with unarmed robbery on a person over 65 years of age, aggravated assault on a person over 65 years of age and unarmed robbery in connection with the robbery of a purse from a 35-year-old Lynn woman in the area of 397 Eastern Ave. on Nov. 7 at 10:30 p.m.Christian is expected to be arraigned today at Lynn District Court.Upon hearing the news, Sozanski, who has received an outpouring of support from the community complete with notes of encouragement and more than 10 bouquets of flowers, breathed a sigh of relief.”The police were just wonderful to me and they were really trying very hard to find this particular person,” she said. “And I can’t believe how unbelievably kind people have been to me that I don’t even know. Lynn is filled with wonderful people?I’m truly blessed in many ways.”Around 1:15 p.m. Monday, Sozanski said she was walking outside her home when all of a sudden a man jumped out of a vehicle and began yanking on her arm to free her purse. The suspect is said to have slammed Sozanski over the head with such force that she fell to the ground unconscious and bled profusely on the cold pavement.A passerby saw her lying motionless on the ground and quickly came to her aide, taking off his shirt so that he could use it to help stop her bleeding. While her wounds – a black eye, multiple bruises and a head gash are slowly healing, Sozanski said she isn’t going to let the hellish ordeal get her down.”Everyday, one never knows who or what is outside, so you can’t be afraid, you have to just hope for the best,” she said. “But if someone feels that they have to rob someone, they should just ask (for a purse) and at least do it without harm.”Lynn Police spokesman William Sharpe said the investigation into both incidents remains active as it is believed that other people were involved in at least Sozanski’s violent beating and mugging. Anyone with additional information is asked to contact the department at 781-595-2000. Anonymous tips can be submitted by texting the word tiplynn and the tip information to tip411 or 847411 or by submitting a tip through the Web site at www.lynnpolice.org and clicking the “submit tip” icon.