Man arrested after moped bandit nabbed Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan’s £127k watch at gunpoint
Adam Yaroo, 32, appeared before magistrates in Croydon, South London, charged with armed robbery
COPS have arrested a man suspected of being the "moped bandit" who stole former Crystal palace owner Simon Jordan's £127,000 watch at gunpoint.
Adam Yaroo, 32, appeared before magistrates in Croydon, south London, charged with armed robbery in relation to the attack and a series of residential burglaries.
Yaroo was remanded in custody and will next appear at crown court in the town on May 31.
Detectives are understood to have picked him up as he arrived home on a scooter at a bedsit in Catford, South East London, on Wednesday evening.
Simon, 50, who put up a £5,000 reward for information about the robbery, was filming a crime series for Scotland Yard when told of the arrest.
He said: "My first reaction was 'have you retrieved my watch?', but unfortunately they had not."
TalkSPORT host Simon bought the blue and red Franck Muller timepiece to celebrate palace gaining promotion to the Premier League in 2004.
Dashcam footage captured a black-clad biker pulling-up alongside Simon’s soft-top Maserati, in a traffic jam in Croydon and pointing a handgun at his head through an open window six weeks ago.
The ex-mobile phones tycoon was driving his 80-year-old father home from hospital where he had been five weeks for suffering heart failure and pneumonia.
He tried to resist demands to hand over the watch for 20 seconds but eventually gave in.
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