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Burglars Get “Bangles”
posted (September 1, 2010)
A 20 year old student was held up last night by an armed robber while walking on Yorke Street. But instead of the robber making off with anything he was caught by the cops.

It happened about 9:15 last night - David Yllescas was walking on Yorke Street when two men rode up to him on bicycles. One of the men jumped off his bike - pulled out a knife -placed it to Yllescas's midsection and demanded that he hand over everything.

Luckily for the student - a police officer was nearby and saw what was going on. The officer captured one of the culprits - who is identified as 18 year old Glenn Burgess of a Faber's Road Address. The other culprit on the bike managed to escape. Nothing was stolen and the knife was recovered. Burgess is currently in police custody pending charges.

In other news, police reportedly recovered a 12 guage shotgun with 6 cartridges yesterday morning at the corner of Plues and Berkely streets - an area that has been particularly riddled by shootings recently.

It was found stowed under a home and no one was charged; the gun was labeled as found property.

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