The Guardia Civil arrested two individuals aged 20 and 22, suspected of carrying out a mugging on the Playa Rambla del Agua in Rubite.

The victims were a young couple who had been sitting on the beach when approached by the two Moroccan men and threatened with knives.

The man was forced to hand over his mobile phone valued at 1,000 euros whilst the woman gave them the 115 euros she had in her purse.

Both victims were held with knives to their throats whilst they handed over their valuables.

The incident took place in the early hours of the 3rd of January. As soon as the muggers left, the couple ran up to the N-340 for help. They were in luck – a Guardia Civil patrol car out of Motril was passing along the road at the time.

The officers radioed in the information, requesting help to search for the assailants in the area. Another patrol car came across the two men walking along a street in Castell de Ferro, whose descriptions matched that given by the couple.

They were searched on the spot and the officers found a knife in the pockets of one man, as well as the 115 euros, and then the phone in the pockets of the other. The other knife had been found on the beach where the mugging took place because one of the arrested men had seen the first patrol car nearing the beach along the N-340 and had ditched it.

The arrested men were taken to the Guardia Civil post in Castell where the couple had no trouble indentifying them as the culprits, after which their stolen belongings were returned.

(News: Rubite, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)