Two in custody after Kitty robbery

Two men are in custody after they were caught by police shortly after allegedly committing a knife point robbery in Kitty. Police said in a press release yesterday that at around 1100 hours Andrew Hooper, 26 years, of Dowding Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was at Dowding Street when he was held up by two men on a bicycle, one of whom was armed with a knife.

The men took away a cell phone from the victim and escaped.

โ€œMembers of a police mobile patrol in the area responded quickly to the report and gave chase behind the perpetrators who abandoned the bicycle in their bid to evade captureโ€, the release said adding that the men were however arrested by the police and the cell phone was recovered.
The men will be charged shortly.