Two young offenders have been charged with three counts of robbery after they allegedly stole personal items from people leaving the Metrotown Skytrain area.
"There were three robberies over that weekend and they were in relatively close time frames," said Clp. Dave Reid of the Burnaby RCMP.
According to Reid, the first theft happened early morning May 18, when someone was leaving the Metrotown SkyTrain station and walking through an adjacent alley. The second robbery happened later that day, when someone was walking from the station to the residential area behind it. The last one was again later the same day, on the street surrounding the station.
RCMP was quickly notified about the robberies and given a description of the suspects - two young black men - which the RCMP then sent out to security guards and Transit Police patrolling the area.
A short while later, police were alerted by a security guard who believed he had spotted the two suspects along Kingsway Avenue, Reid said.
"The security officer phoned in and said that he believed that he saw (the) two people getting into a cab on Kingsway between MacKay and Nelson," he said.
Police were dispatched to the scene and found the two young men matched the descriptions given, and a search of their belongings revealed the stolen items from earlier that day, Reid said.
The two men have been charged with three counts of robbery and were released from jail with conditions, including they appear before the courts when requested. Both of the young men are underage and their names will not be released.
