A man from Tanzania has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a robbery, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Cho Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.
According to Chan, the suspect is a 23-year-old surnamed Walles while the victim is a male non-resident worker in his forties whose surname was not revealed.
Chan said that on early Saturday morning the victim was drinking at a bar in Zape. After becoming drunk the victim and two female friends left the bar at around 6 a.m. While they were passing a shopping centre in the vicinity, four men appearing to be Africans approached them and pretended to help carry the victim. Suddenly one of the four men grabbed the victim’s gold chain and all four ran off.