Police have apprehended a man in relation to a robbery in the city last month in which a man was allegedly threatened with a weapon and forced to hand over valuables.
It happened outside the victim’s residence in Lowe St early one morning, where he was sitting at a table he had set up on the footpath.
“It’s alleged a man rode up to him on the bicycle and demanded his cellphone and wallet, threatening him with a weapon,” said Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Moorhouse.
The man then rode off.
“The arrested man lives locally and was not known to the victim.
