The armed robber who escaped being lynched when he and three others snatched a student’s bag at Osu last month has been arrested by the police upon a tip-off. As reported by the Ghanaian Times newspaper of August 14, the three accomplices of Kofi Anthony – Okoe Ayittey, Nii Nii and Abeashie — were lynched by a mob at Osu on the day of the incident. The Accra Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent Ray Boi-Bi-Boi said Anthony, 32 and the three on August 13 attacked and robbed a student of the University of Ghana, Legon of her bag when she alighted from a taxi of Osu. The police said during interrogation, Anthony admitted being an armed robber who snatches vehicles, bags and steals goats and is also engaged in drugs deals. Section 150 of the Criminal Code defines armed robber as a person who in the course of stealing uses any force or causes any harm to any person or if the person uses any threat of criminal assault or harm to any person or with intend to prevent or overcome the resistance of that or any other person to the stealing of the thing. He said he was granted amnesty from the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons this year after he had been sentenced for three years for snatching a car at La, in Accra. Anthony claimed that on the day of the incident, he was at Chorkor when the three in a taxi cab approached him and invited him to join them in an operation. The group first snatched a bag from a woman at Labone junction in Accra and then at "Blue Gate", also at Osu, they snatched the bag of a student who had just alighted from a taxi cab. He said that they were pursued by the very taxi that the girl alighted from and that it was in their attempt to flee that their taxi crashed into another car at the traffic light near the Osu Presbyterian Church. Chief Superintendent Boi-Bi-Boi said the crash compelled the gang to run for their lives but they were pursued by a crowd who lynched three of them while Anthony escaped and hid in a house in the area. The police Superintendent said it was after that incident, that Anthony went into hiding at Weija from where he was arrested. Source: The Ghanaian Times