The Delta State Police Command has arrested four suspected cultists and recovered two locally-made guns with four cartridges.
The command also arrested a suspected serial car snatcher and recovered a stolen vehicle.
This was disclosed to newsmen by the command spokesperson, DSP. Bright Edafe, on Tuesday in Asaba, the state capital.
According to the police spokesperson, on 17/4/2022, information got to the Command that a group of suspected cultists/armed robbers were hibernating at Eloke Hotel located in Isele-Azagba and the location being their meeting point before carrying out their operations.
DSP Edafe said Intelligence further revealed that the syndicate monitor to know if the police are closing upon them and that whenever they suspect anything, they throw their guns from the window of the hotel and run away.
He added that the operatives of the State Anti-Cult unit in a carefully planned operation raided the said hideout and arrested four suspects namely; Ogbuokwu Trust ‘m’ Age 23yrs, Augustine Solomon ‘m’ Age 20yrs, Edebatu Gideon ‘m’ and Kingsley Okolie ‘m’ Age 20 yrs. Two locally-made cut to size guns and four live cartridges were recovered from them.
In another development, he said on 17//4/2022, the Command received a distress call from a caller (Name withheld) that his Toyota Camry car with registration no. EFR 939 TK was snatched at about 2000hours of the same date in the Otu-Jeremi community of Ughelli South LGA. Information was quickly disseminated through the Command’s control room to all DPOs and Patrol teams to be on the lookout to recover the said vehicle and arrest the suspects.
He said consequently, on 18/4/2022 at 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 it to his heels. The team went after the suspect and after a hot chase caught up with him and the suspect Mkohol Iligh ‘m’ age 57yrs was arrested. The suspect stated that one C.Y m’ who stays in Warri gave him the car to be delivered to another person in Asaba. The investigation is ongoing to arrest all suspects involved, the police spokesperson added.
He also said the Commissioner of Police CP Ari Muhammed Ali, FCIA, Psc+ while commending the efforts of the men also urges them to continue to be on their toes, and go after all criminal elements in the State to make the State unbearable for them.
He said the CP appreciated the efforts of residents of the state who has been supporting the command by way of information and assuring them that their identity will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.
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