Delta State Police Command Arrests Suspected Robbers in Warri
••• Recover Tricle and Suspected Substance Believed To Be Indian Hemp And Other Illicit Drugs
By People’s Voice Nigeria | News
Delta State’s new commissioner of police, CP Wale Abass, is not giving any breathing space to kidnappers, cultists, armed robbers, and other criminal elements in the state as operatives of the command descend hard on suspected armed robbers and kidnappers terrorising travelers along Sapele-Warri Road.
In a press statement e-signed and released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP, by the Command’s Spokesperson, DSP Edafe Bright stated that, “Sequel to the series of reported cases of armed robbery and kidnapping along Sapele-Warri road and its environs, which have created fear among road users, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Wale Abass, on assumption of duty, identified this ugly trend as a major security challenge in the state.
He then detailed an intelligence unit of the command, the CP-Decoy Squad, to embark on a discreet and intelligence-led operation. The Commander Decoy Squad, ASP Julius Robinson, led operatives of the squad, who relocated to Sapele on a covert operation while acting on credible intelligence gathered within Sapele and surrounding communities. They arrested one Nyero Sunday, “M,” 29 years old, of Okwitolo community alongside eight others, all in Okpe LGA, Delta State.”
According to the statement, “the suspects who were arrested through a technical intelligence-led investigation have confessed to their involvements in numerous kidnapping and armed robbery operations; they also admitted to terrorizing the Sapele-Warri road. Further investigation led to the arrest of one Umar Bello “m,” age 33, who is from Sokoto state but resides in Warri. He usually buys the stolen phones and other valuables from their victims. A Toyota Corolla with Reg. No. WWR 353 LS, a locally made cut-to-size single-barrel pistol, and eleven (11) rounds of live cartridges were recovered from the syndicate. “Efforts are on to arrest other fleeing suspects.”
Meanwhile, “On 15/5/2023, at about 0015hrs, while police operatives of ‘B’ division Warri, led by the DPO SP Bolarinwa Alabi, were on visibility/confidence building patrol along Airport Road, they sighted a tricycle with three (3) male occupants and, in their usual way, flagged down the tricycle, but the rider, on sighting the police maneuver in a bid to escape, went after the operatives until they eventually abandoned the tricycle and took to their heels. One of the suspects, named Nworie Emmanuel ‘m,” 20 years old, was arrested and taken to the police station. During interrogation, the suspect stated that he is a member of a three-man gang of armed robbers who use a tricycle to rob innocent people of their belongings along Airport Road in Warri.
He also confessed that they robbed two persons on that day along Airport Road, that the phone robbed was with Abdul, one of their fleeing gang members, and that their modus operandi is to look out for their victims standing on a lonely road at night, and Abdul (currently at large) will jump down from the tricycle, use the knife to threaten their victim, and rob them of their phones and other valuables. The tricycle and the knife they use to scare their victims are in custody alongside the suspect, while efforts are on to arrest the other fleeing members of the gang.
“In another development, the Command crack squad raided a criminal blackspot located around Osuani in Patani LGA on May 16, 2023, and arrested one Priscillia Amor “f,” aged 35 years, and recovered twenty-six wraps of weed suspected to be Indian hemp, nineteen wraps of substance suspected to be methamphetamine, eight packets of razlers, some mobile phones, and other exhibits. “An investigation is ongoing to arrest her other gang members.”
