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23 March 2017 – Arrest – Armed Handbag Snatch – Kilkenny

Published March 24, 2018 | By admin

A man who allegedly threatened a woman with a syringe and stole her handbag at Kilkenny, has been chased down by members of the public and detained until police arrived.

Just before 10.30am this morning, a woman was just getting into her car at the Arndale Shopping Centre, when a man armed with a syringe opened the passenger’s side and threatened the woman demanding her handbag.  The man wrenched the handbag from the woman’s grasp and fled on foot towards Hanson Road.

The woman uninjured but shaken from the robbery, yelled out for assistance pointing out the fleeing suspect.

Two men nearby not known to the victim, then gave chase on foot apprehending the suspect with the handbag, near the corner of Hanson Road and Torrens Road and detaining the man until a police patrol arrived.

The 59-year-old man of no fixed place was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery.

Bail is expect to be refused  and he will appear in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court later today.

18/D56995

Posted in Bag Snatches, SA

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