NIBONG TEBAL: A 18-year-old drug addict was nabbed 15 minutes after snatching a gold chain and a cellphone from a woman in Sungai Bakap here on Saturday.
The youth was detained by a volunteer patrol team while trying to sell the items at a cellphone shop in Simpang Ampat here.Seberang Prai Selatan police chief Superintendent Shafien Mamat said the youth and an accomplice had snatched the items from the factory worker waiting for a feeder van at a bus stop near SJK (T) Ladang Valdor.
He said the two then stopped at the cellphone shop 15 minutes later. However, the shop owner sensed something amiss and alerted a local volunteer patrol team."The team apprehended the youth when the youth and his accomplice tried to run into some nearby bushes. "The accomplice managed to give them the slip," Shafien said.
Source: NST Malaysia, 5 April 2010
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