(PHOTOS): POLICE ARREST ‘ONE CHANCE’ ROBBER, DRUG PEDDLER, OTHERS IN ENUGU

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Six suspects have been arrested by the Enugu State Police Command on charges of a variety of offenses, including robbery with a “one chance,” illegal possession and trafficking of suspected cocaine, marijuana (“Ghana Loud”), theft of a car battery, a tricycle (Keke), and a church organ keyboard.

This was made known in a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, on its X handle on Monday.

The statement read in part, ā€œPolice operatives serving in different divisions of the Enugu State Police Command have arrested a total of six male suspects for the offences of ā€œone chanceā€ robbery, unlawful possession and peddling of suspected cocaine, stealing of a motor vehicle battery, a tricycle (Keke), and a church organ keyboard.

ā€œTwo tricycles, one motor vehicle battery, one organ keyboard, wraps of substances suspected to be cocaine, and quantities of weeds suspected to be ā€œGhana Loudā€ were recovered from the suspects.

ā€œAccordingly, police operatives serving in the Independence Layout Police Division of the Command, working with law-abiding citizens, on April 18, 2024, around 10am., arrested one Edeh Chibuike ā€œmā€, aged 44, and recovered a yello-coloured Bajaj tricycle with registration number NSK 218 QA.

ā€œThe suspect and his cohorts who escaped, operating in the recovered tricycle, are alleged to have robbed their female victim and passenger of her iPhone and Bankā€™s ATM Card at Nwakanwa Street, Independence Layout, Enugu.

ā€œThe suspect and gang members were given a hot chase by law-abiding citizens, which caused their keke to skid off the road into a fence, leading to his arrest while others escaped. The suspect confessed to the crime, stating that his criminal gang has been in the business of ā€œone chanceā€ robbery and fraud on unsuspecting victims within the Enugu metropolis.ā€

The PPRO added that the same operatives, on April 17, 2024, around 4 p.m., arrested one Supuruchukwu Udeozor ā€œmā€ aged 20, of Power-line near New Artisan, Enugu, and recovered a suspected stolen blue-coloured tricycle (keke) with number plate UWN 132 VK and feet No. EBS/TRO 1555.ā€

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