Shadreck Chimpeni famously touted as street connected children’ chairperson is behind bars in Lilongwe.

The suspect has been on the run for at least a month after being listed as one of the most police wanted suspects earmarked for arrest.

Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations Officer Inspector Hastings Chigalu said in one of the numerous cases he is facing, at around 14:30 hours the suspect, while displaying a knife at two University of Malawi students who were passing-by at Wullian near Lilongwe Bridge, ordered the victims to voluntarily surrender their items to him or risked being stabbed.

He robbed them a cellphone valued at K700, 000 (seven hundred thousand kwacha).

Police arrested the suspect with the help of community policing members within the Central Business District who traced him at his hiding place on Tuesday, 24 September 2024.

He will be taken to court soon to face robbery charges.

Shadreck Chimpeni (suspect) hails from Kampepuza Village, Traditional Authority Kwataine in Ntcheu District.