Two thieves got more than they had bargained for, and are currently in the Brickdam Police Station lockups following a brazen robbery yesterday, at the junction of Carmichael and Middle Streets, Georgetown.

The men, both reportedly of Lodge, relieved a young lady — Ronita Stewart — of a cellular phone at about 14:00 hrs, but were caught more than two blocks away following a spirited chase by angry citizens.

The victim told Kaieteur News that she was walking in the vicinity of the Promenade Gardens when she noticed one of the men looking at her phone, which was in her hand at the time.

“After I saw him looking at the phone, I open my bag and was putting the phone in the bag when he grabbed the phone. When he grabbed the phone, I hold on to he hair and he bite me on my hand,” the visibly shaken woman recounted.
Following the robbery, the two stopped a taxi and attempted to escape.
However, they apparently noticed a woman taking pictures of them and abandoned their decision to flee via taxi.
By this time, public-spirited citizens were already in hot pursuit and, as such, the two began running frantically east along Middle Street.
They then entered a yard in Waterloo Street, and somehow managed to make their way north to Lamaha Street.
Their success in avoiding capture was short-lived, however, because their relentless pursuers, who had grown in numbers, kept up the chase.
The men jumped into a minibus, but were captured by a businessman who had been behind them from the inception.
A search of one of the profusely sweating men revealed the victim’s cellular phone.
Despite the find, the men continued to claim their innocence.
A huge crowd gathered on Lamaha Street to get a glimpse of the captured duo.
“I don’t understand why these young people don’t find work rather than thief from people,” one man remarked.
“Beat them! Beat them!” other persons shouted.
In all of the commotion, one of the two saw his father and called out to him but, in apparent embarrassment, the man remarked, ‘I can’t do anything fuh you. I dee send you to thief?”
Both were taken to the Brickdam Police Station, where they were identified.
A short while after, a police woman appeared at the station claiming that one of the men is her son.
He was, nonetheless, placed in the lockups.