Taxi Driver Online

20 Mar 2008

Robbers nabbed by cops driving getaway taxi

TORONTO (Reuters) - Sometimes it pays to have your own wheels.

Two teenage suspects in a convenience store robbery in Oakville,
Ontario, near Toronto, may have made a clean escape had they thought
to bring a getaway car along for the heist.

Instead, the men fled the store on foot with an undisclosed amount of
money, and then called for a taxi -- which showed up with two police
officers inside.

Unfortunately for the would-be robbers, the police had been tipped off
about the robbery by the wife of the store's lone employee that night.
During a phone call with her husband she had heard a commotion, before
the call was cut short.

She phoned the police who asked a local taxi company to alert them of
any suspicious calls from the area. When an out-of-breath caller asked for
a cab near the store, police met up with the taxi, took over from the driver
and headed to the pick-up location.

The two men emerged from a wooded area and said they called for a cab.
They were immediately arrested and driven to jail.

"Obviously not having a getaway vehicle or anything like that and calling a
cab is generally not a sign of your most sophisticated criminal," Detective
Sergeant Kevin Maher of the Halton Regional Police Service told Reuters.

Source: elEconomista.es
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