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9 robbery, tricycle-snatching suspects arrested in Delta

No fewer than nine suspects specialised in armed robbery and tricycle-snatching operations have been arrested in parts of Delta State.

This was made known by the Commissioner of Police, Wale Abass, through the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Bright Edafe, stating that assorted arms and ammunition were allegedly recovered from the suspects who were nabbed during their operations.

“Through intelligence gathering, suspected armed robbers, Efosa Osemere also known as Kpako, 23, Nwabuzor Joseph, 30, and Otasowie Osaso, 33y, who belong to a tricycle-snatching syndicate, were arrested on August 5 by operatives of the Delta Police Command at Ewuru community in Agbor.

“When a search warrant was executed in their houses, one locally-made cut-to-size pistol and a live cartridge were recovered.

“Similarly, on August 6, an anti-robbery patrol team of Orerokpe Division while on routine stop-and-search along Oha/Orerokpe community road in Okpe Local Government Area arrested 27-year-old Oghenetoja Douglas of Agboro Community in Okpara Island Isokolo, Ethiope East in a tricycle with a double barrel cut-to-size short gun with two live cartridges, N148,000.”

In another development, the DPO Kwale division CSP Edwin Igoche, after a complaint about a syndicate that vandalises electricity poles and cables, led a combined team of police and vigilante to arrest Michael Thank god, 25, Peter Onyoba, 31, from Anambra State, Prince Johnson, 46, Ogochukwu Nwabochali, 36, and Chinedu Ossai, 38 on August 5.

“Three sacks containing electric conductor cable wires, two iron steel cutters and one measuring scale were recovered from the suspects.”

Meanwhile, the command has called for continuous support and partnership of residents with the police at all times.

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