By Ikemefuna Asika, Awka
The Police in Ogidi, Idemili North Council Area Anambra State have busted a 4-man burglary gang that targets commercial shops across the State.
According to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Anambra State Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the police acting on a tip-off received on 30th August, 2023 stormed the hideout of the gang and cordoned it off to prevent escape of any of the gang members.
Four suspects, all of them from Ebonyi State were arrested while the following items were recovered from them:
Two ‘ladies motorcycles’, two
big generators, one wheelbarrow, one deep freezer,
three bags of rice and two large iron cutters.
On Interrogation, the suspects confessed to having broken into a store at Nanka in Orumba North LGA of Anambra State to steal the recovered items.
The Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye commended the newly posted DPO in Ogidi, CSP Uche Onyinaya, for hitting the ground running, having earlier arrested and recovered a Baretta Pistol from a cultist and asked the personnel not to relent in the fight
against criminal elements.
Adoye directed that investigation be extended to Nanka to locate owner of the store and Motor Licensing Office for records of owners of the motorcycles with a view to returning the recovered items to the rightful owners.
The statement said the suspects would be prosecuted arraigned as soon as investigation is concluded.
