BY PHIL OKOSE, ONITSHA
A four-man burglary gang that targets commercial shops across Anambra State have been apprehended by police in Ogidi area of the state.
State Police Public Relations Officer, in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, (DSP), said the suspects were rounded up when police, acting on a rip-off stormed their hideout.
Ikenga disclosed that the four suspects, who hail from Ebonyi State, were arrested while different items were recovered from them.
He listed items to include two ‘ladies motorcycles, two big generators, one wheel barrow, deep freezer, three bags of rice and two large iron cutters.
On Interrogation, the suspects confessed to have broken into a store at Nanka in Orumba North Local Government Area, to steal the recovered items.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye, who commended the newly posted Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in Ogidi, Uche Onyinaya, (CSP), added that he had earlier arrested and recovered a baretta pistol from a cultist, and urged the personnel not to relent in their pursuit of criminal elements.
The CP directed that investigation be extended to Nanka to locate the 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.
He noted that the suspects will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation is concluded.