The RNC have arrested a man in connection with a carjacking in the capital city’s downtown earlier this month.
Officers were called to Livingstone Street around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8 after a taxi driver reported that he was assaulted and pulled from his cab. The culprit then drove away in the vehicle, which was found abandoned a short time later.
Twenty-seven-year-old Henry Fitzgerald of St. John’s was arrested on Lemarchant Road in St. John’s this morning.
He’s been charged with robbery, vehicle theft, and breach of probation.
Fitzgerald was already facing charges of theft under $5,000 and failing to follow court orders.
He remains in custody pending a court appearance on Wednesday.