Hanoi man arrested after robbing 4 convenience stores with knife
Thursday, January 12, 2023, 14:49 GMT+7
Police in Hanoi said on Wednesday that they had arrested a 32-year-old local man for using a knife to rob four convenience stores in the Vietnamese capital city the previous day.
Officers launched an investigation and managed to capture Dang Dinh Tuyen, 32, living in Chuong My District, following the report of property robbery made by two Circle K stores in Thanh Xuan District on Tuesday.
At the police station, Tuyen admitted to stealing a chef’s knife from a noodle shop on Luong The Vinh Street in the same district at around 2:00 am Tuesday before using it to threaten a cashier at a Circle K store on the same street and taking away all cash in the cash drawer.
This CCTV footage shows Dang Dinh Tuyen robbing a convenience store with a knife in Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi, January 10, 2023.
The man went on to rob two other Circle K stores on Le Van Luong Street and Le Van Thiem Street in Thanh Xuan and one Red Mart store on Me Tri Thuong Street in Nam Tu Liem District by holding their employees at knifepoint within the next two hours.
He then threw the knife and his coat away along his way home by motorbike.
Tuyen kept the cash amount of more than VND15 million (US$640) and three mobile phones that he had robbed in a wardrobe and went to sleep before being arrested by police in Thanh Xuan District at about 9:30 am the same day.
He also confessed to causing one robbery and one theft in the same district on September 20, 2022 and November 24, 2022.
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