Robbers nabbed by cops driving getaway taxi

TORONTO (Reuters) - Sometimes it pays to have your ownwheels.

Two teenage suspects in a convenience store robbery inOakville, Ontario, near Toronto, may have made a clean escapehad they thought to bring a getaway car along for the heist.

Instead, the men fled the store on foot with an undisclosedamount of money, and then called for a taxi -- which showed upwith two police officers inside.

Unfortunately for the would-be robbers, the police had beentipped off about the robbery by the wife of the store's loneemployee that night. During a phone call with her husband shehad heard a commotion, before the call was cut short.

She phoned the police who asked a local taxi company toalert them of any suspicious calls from the area. When anout-of-breath caller asked for a cab near the store, police metup with the taxi, took over from the driver and headed to thepick-up location.

The two men emerged from a wooded area and said they calledfor a cab. They were immediately arrested and driven to jail.

"Obviously not having a getaway vehicle or anything likethat and calling a cab is generally not a sign of your mostsophisticated criminal," Detective Sergeant Kevin Maher of theHalton Regional Police Service told Reuters.

(Editing by Rob Wilson)