Crime & Safety

Quick Arrests Made After Oak Grove Robbery

A police spokesman confirms the two suspects knew the victim in Wednesday morning's armed robbery.

Two supsects were arrested within hours of an armed robbery in Malden Wednesday morning, police said. 

The names of those arrested could not be immediately released as the matter was still under investigation, Lt. Det. Marc Gatcomb said.

The suspects were known to the victim. 

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"The robbery occurred after they lured the victim to a meeting place and pointed what was believed to be a firearm at the victim," he wrote in an email to Malden Patch. 

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