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…recover two locally fabricated guns, ammo
A group of suspected cultists/armed robbers who were hibernating at Eloke Hotel in Issele Azagba, which they use as their rendezvous before carrying out their criminal acts, have been arrested by the police in Delta State.
According to the Spokesperson of the Command, DSP Bright Edafe said on Tuesday that the command had on the 17th April, 2022, got a credible information got to the Command that the group were using to rehearse before carrying out their operations.
However, intelligence reports later revealed that the syndicate have been monitoring the police to know if they were closing up on them and that whenever they suspect anything clandestine, they throw their guns from the window of the hotel and run away.
As a result, operatives of the State Anti-Cult unit in a carefully planned operation, raided the said hideout and arrested four suspects identified as Ogbuokwu Trust, 23, Augustine Solomon, 20, Edebatu Gideon, and Kingsley Okolie, 20, all male accomplices.
However, two locally made cut to size guns and four live cartridges were recovered from them.
In another development, on the same day, 17th April, 2022, the Command received a distress call from a caller (Name withheld) that his Toyota Camry car with Registration No. EFR 939 TK was snatched about 2000hours in Otu-Jeremi community of Ughelli South Local Government Area.
Consequently, on the 18th April, 2022 about 0635hrs Anti-Crime Patrol of Ogwashi-Uku Police Station while on routine stop and search duty along Kwale/Ogwashi-Uku expressway by Olloh-Ogwashi Community, intercepted the said Toyota Camry.
The Occupant who happens to be the driver of the vehicle upon sighting the Police, abandoned the Car and took to his heels.
The team went after the suspect and after a hot chase caught up with him and the suspect, Mkohol Iligh, 57 years old male was arrested.
He confessed that one C.Y, a male, who stays in Warri gave him the car to be delivered to another person in Asaba.
However, investigation is still ongoing with a view to arresting all suspects involved.
In that light, the Commissioner of Police CP Ari Muhammed Ali, while commending the efforts of the men urged them to continue to be on their toes, and go after all criminal elements in the State with a view to making the State unbearable for them.
He also appreciated the efforts of residents of the state who have been supporting the command by way of information, assuring them that their identity would protected.
