Burst
Written by: Deng Haixing
2020-02-18 05:20
Last updated: 2020-02-18 07:43Convenience store robbery is still frequent recently. Police yesterday (17th) arrested one more suspect in Yuen Long District. Three similar robbery cases occurred in Tin Shui Wai, Sheung Shui and Causeway Bay this morning (18th). At approximately 1 am, a thief broke into a convenience store in Lehuju, Kingswood Villas, No. 1 Tianhu Road, Tianshuiwei, scared a 30-year-old male staff with a knife, robbed 1,000 yuan of cash, and fled in the direction of Tianrui Village. The Yuen Long Police District Criminal Investigation Team is looking for a Chinese man aged about 30, about 1.7 meters tall, of medium build, wearing a grey shirt and black pants and wearing a mask.
In addition, at 4 am, a 35-year-old male employee was robbed by a thief with a knife at a convenience store at 23-33 Xincai Street, Sheung Shui. He lost a pack of cigarettes and cash of 5,500 yuan. Flee in the direction of the station. A criminal investigation team of the Sheung Shui Police District is looking for a Chinese man aged 25 to 30, about 1.7 meters tall, of thin build, wearing a black shirt and black pants, a black hat and a mask.
By 6 am, a convenience store on the ground floor of 478-484 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, also encountered a lone thief wearing a black shirt and black pants, wearing a cap and a mask. The thief took an 8-inch knife and hijacked it. About 5,000 yuan in cash.
In total, at least 11 similar robberies have occurred in the past two weeks, mainly in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long and Tuen Mun. At about 3 am yesterday (17th), a knife thief broke into a convenience store at the Hershey Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, robbing two packs of cigarettes and cash of 620 yuan; in the early morning of February 12, a convenience store on Education Road, Yuen Long After being robbed of more than 6,700 yuan in cash and goods by a knife thief, the police arrested two men two days later (14th) and yesterday (17th).
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