Horse robber

Brazilian police have arrested a teenager who rode a horse into a busy district of Rio de janeiro and, brandishing a toy gun, forced a man to handover his cell phone. Police recently said that a 15 year old had confessed he borrowed the horse from a neighbour in Rio slum where he lives and committed the crme after being promised $20 for a phone with a camera by members of a local crminal gang. He rode the horse into the courtyard of a hospital in Rio's Meire neighbourhood and snatched the phone from a man waiting in line there. When police caught up with him a few blocks away, he was on foot and the horse was nowhere to be seen.