Penza, 26 January 2012. PenzaNews. Employees of the police department No 3 of Interior Ministry handed over a letter of thanks and a gift to 15-year-old teenager Nikita Strelkin who had helped the policeman to arrest the criminal.

According to the press-service of the department, in July, 2011 the malefactor being in alcohol intoxication attacked the pensioner near to the entrance of his house took away a purse with money and disappeared from a scene.

“Ninth grader of school No 56 Nikita Strelkin was the witness of the incident. The teenager has run out in house slippers and began to pursue the malefactor. Passing by policemen heard shouts of the teenager to the criminal and arrested him,” the press-service informed.

Now the guilty verdict was delivered against the criminal and he faced punishment in the form of 3 years of imprisonment.