Chopper hunts toy-gun robber
Pretoria - A robber wielding a toy gun found on Thursday that police were in no mood to play when they tracked him down with a helicopter 10 minutes after he stole a woman's cellphone.
Inspector Lucas Sithole said the 22-year-old man stormed into a woman's house in Pretoria North shortly before 11:00 on Thursday, pointing a gun at her before grabbing her cellphone and fleeing.
The woman contacted police with the man's description. An officer of the police air wing on a routine patrol in the area spotted the man.
The air wing directed a ground unit to his position and the man was caught and the cellphone recovered.
Police found that the gun he used to threaten the woman was a toy.
The man is due to appear in Pretoria North magistrate's court on Friday on charges of armed robbery.
News source: www.news24.co.za
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