Vancouver Food Delivery Workers Stabbed After Seizing Facebook Marketplace Thief: VPD

Police tape cordons off a crime scene in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C., on April 9, 2015. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Vancouver Police are commending the bravery of two food delivery workers who were stabbed when they intervened in an attempted robbery stemming from a Facebook Marketplace sale.

VPD Sgt. Steve Addison says a 21-year-old suspect is in custody after being subdued by bystanders when he tried to rob the seller in the transaction.