Vagrant up for robbing resident

A man of no fixed abode has been dragged to the court for robbing a Lobengula Old resident of his mobile phone a $3 cash.

Ronald Ncube (24) was not asked to plead to the robbery charge when he appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Tinashe Tashaya.

He was remanded to December 1.

The court was told that on October 16 this year at 9pm the complainant Edson Baya was in the city centre when he was approached by Ncube and his alleged accomplices who then manhandled him before robbing him of his mobile phone and $3 cash.

The complainant managed to identify Ncube on the street when he met him and alerted the police leading to his arrest.