Police nabbed three robbery suspects for stealing over 150 handsets, others

The Anambra state police command, on Thursday, arrested three armed robbery suspects who specialise in car and handsets snatching for stealing over one hundred and fifty handsets from different victims across the state.

In a statement by the spokesperson of Anambra State Police Command, SP Haruna Mohammed, he said the suspects were part of the gang allegedly involved in series of Armed robbery/Carjacking in Anambra and Asaba axis including the snatching of one Toyota Corolla 2004 and Lexus 300 car on the 21st of July,2019  in Aguata Local government area of the state.

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According to him, On the 26th of August, 2019 following credible intelligence report, Puff-Adder operatives in conjunction with Police detectives attached to Aguata Division arrested the following syndicate, Anyingor Arinze ‘m’ of Othuke, Asaba Delta State, Chinedu Nweke ‘m’ of Mbekwe Estate, Ogidi in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State and Ebuka Christian Eziamaka ‘m’ of Ire village, Obosi in Idemili North LGA.

Exhibits recovered in their possession includes one Gionee handset belonging to one of the victims whose vehicle was snatched. Other exhibits recovered are 12 Itel phones of different models, 26 Infinix phones of different models,32 Tecno phones of different models, 16 Samsung phones of different models, 3 Gionee phones of different models and 60 other smaller phones of different make and models all reasonably suspected to have been snatched from different Victims.

He said the case under investigation after which suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.

Meanwhile, the Command has enjoined the Public whose handsets were either snatched or stolen through similar modus to report at the Special Anti-robbery Squad Akwuzu in order to claim their handsets and also give further evidence to aid Police investigation.