A man has been arrested with a stolen motorcycle in Male’ City.

Maldives Police Service said that the 20-year-old suspect was arrested after he tried to evade the police when he was flagged down for speeding.

Police said that the man was followed after they suspected that the motorcycle he was on, was a stolen one. And when the man noticed he was being followed, he abandoned the vehicle on Boduthakurufaanu Magu and went inside a residential house in the Galolhu district to hide. The arrest was made while he was trying to hide.

The vehicle has now been towed to the case is being investigated further by the police.