High speed chase foils bandits of businesswoman’s Ford Ranger

Cunupia: Police have recovered a Ford Ranger stolen from a Central business woman last night.

Investigators say the woman arrived at her Cunupia home just after eight last night and as she was about to enter her gate she was accosted by two men wearing masks and armed with guns.

The men robbed the woman who had just returned from her business place of an undisclosed amount  of cash and jewellery. They then demanded the keys to her Ford Ranger.

A team of officers were on patrol in the area and they spotted the stolen vehicle on Ragoonanan Road.

The suspects tried to elude police but the officers caught up with them on O’Brien Road. The bandits abandoned the vehicle and ran but investigators are yet to rcover the cash and jewelry.