Rs 278,000 theft

Alert cops nab robber within eight hours:

Samanthi WEERASEKARA

Alertness of a team of officers attached to the Katugastota Police Crimes Division enabled them to arrest a suspect who had allegedly robbed Rs. 278,000 from the cubby hole of a lorry within a matter of eight hours of the alleged robbery along with a large portion of the money.

Police said the lorry belonged to a vegetable trader at the Menikkumbura market and the suspect had been earlier employed by him.

He had robbed the money when the lorry stopped over at a filling station at Koshinna for an intake of gas.

The suspect had spent Rs. 3,860 out of the money at the time of arrest. The suspect was produced before the Kandy Chief Magistrate and remanded till April 20.

Investigations are continuing.