The arrest of an 18-year-old on Saturday may have the knock-on effect of solving a number of open robbery cases in the capital.

Police said they caught the teen red-handed as he was stripping a parked moto for parts in Chamkarmon district.

Grilled at the station, the suspect began confessing to a veritable one-man crime wave of robberies, among them, the pistol-whipping of a karaoke hostess. NOKORWAT