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Two men -- Amuchine Karpeh, 27, and Patrick Sweegay, 25 -- charged with armed robbery have admitted that they used a ‘single barrel pistol gun’ to rob Attorney Johnson A. Mentee Gweh and others in Paynesville on 16 October 2011.

Both defendants were remanded Tuesday at the Monrovia Central Prison after they admitted during police investigation that they used a gun and other dangerous weapons to attack their victims.

Defendant Karpeh told police investigators that both of them were arrested red handed with the “single barrel pistol gun and some rounds of ammunition plus two cell phones”.

“It is true that we did the act. We do not want to lie about what we did. So we are pleading with the victims to forgive us for the act,” the defendants said in separate statements to police investigators.

Attorney Gweh and others had reported to police that the attackers “broke into our home in Paynesville while we were asleep, put us under gun point and threatened to kill us if we failed to surrender our money and other valuable items to them.”

They reported that the attackers stole items from them valued at approximately L$180,000.

According to the police charge sheet, the defendants’ alleged action violated Chapter 15, Section 15.32 and Chapter 10, Section 10.2 of the criminal of Liberia