Four men have been arrested after a taxi driver was robbed on Friday night by three or four younger men who were threatened with weapons. The four also took the car with them.
Operations Manager Christian Krohn Engeseth in the Oslo police district says Avisa Oslo Friday morning that four people have been arrested after the robbery.
– Technical and tactical investigation caused the police to break into an apartment in the morning. There were four men present, and these have been arrested. They are on their way to the arrest now and will be questioned, he says.
The operations manager says that one of the four men is in his late teens, while the other three are in their early 20s.
The police were notified of the robbery that took place in Københavngata on Dælenenga in Oslo at 2.30 on Friday night. The car was found parked on Tøyen a while later.
– The taxi driver, who is now in the emergency room, has explained to us that he was threatened. The robbers showed handguns and a knife, and he was robbed of both a telephone and a car, says operations manager Line Skott to NTB.
At 4 o’clock she stated that the driver was subjected to violence and is very affected by the incident. He was taken care of in the emergency room.
All available crews searched for the perpetrators for an hour and a half after the robbery, and the police helicopter was also used in the search.
The driver has explained that he first picked up a passenger. After a while, more people came to the place, and then the situation escalated.
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