ACT Policing media release
Youths charged in relation to aggravated robbery
Friday, 03 July 2009
Two male youths will appear in the ACT Childrens Court this morning (Friday, July 3) on charges related to an aggravated robbery in Griffith on July 1.
Police arrested the two youths after performing a traffic stop on a white Holden Commodore on Canberra Ave, Kingston around 10.27pm last night (July 2).
Police will allege that the youths, both from Canberra’s southern suburbs, aided and abetted an aggravated robbery on three teenage males walking home from Manuka on Captain Cook Crescent around midnight on July 1.
It will be alleged that the pair were among others who were in two vehicles which stopped on Captain Cook Crescent, where the three teenage victims were threatened, and had their wallets and mobile phones stolen.
The two youths, one aged 16 and the other 17 years, were held in the Regional Watch House last night and will appear in court today.
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