Operatives attached to the Delta State Police Command have arrested two notorious armed robbers terrorising the state.
The suspects identified as Joshua Oweke aged 35 years of Gbulebu community in Edo State and Nicolas Binakeye age 25 years of first road Akenfa in Bayelsa State were arrested on December 8th 2022, at about 4:30 pm.
NigeriaCrime.com learned that Dragon Patrol teams attached to the police command on stop and search duty along Warri/Sapele road intercepted a black GLK Mercedes Benz SUV with registration number BEN-734-EZ conveying two male occupants for a routine search.
When a search was conducted on the car and the passengers, a Barreta pistol and a locally made revolver pistol were recovered and the two suspects, Joshua Oweke and Nicolas Binakeye.
Confirming the arrest, DSP Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer Delta State Command said exhibits in custody and investigation is ongoing.”
In a related development, on December 6th 2022, an intelligence report revealed that a syndicate who unlawfully deals in the sales of cartridges to cultists and armed robbers were hibernating in Boboroku community in Jesse where they carry out their nefarious activities.
Acting on this report, the Commissioner of Police Delta State Command, CP Ari Muhammed Ali directed the Command’s raiders squad to carry out a sting operation on the said hideout. In compliance with this directive, Commander Raider’s squad detailed operatives who stormed the hideout at Boboroku Jesse Ethiope-West LGA, and arrested a lady identified as Victoria Willams and two others all from Boboroku community in Jesse. A hundred and thirty (130) live cartridges were recovered. The investigation is ongoing.
Similarly, on the December 6th, 2022 at about 10:30 pm operatives of Eagle-net Special Squad deployed to Ughelli for visibility policing and to complement the efforts of the Divisions in the area, received a distress call from a victim (Name withheld) on the said date, that his Lexus Saloon car with reg no. JRT670X Ash colour was snatched at gunpoint by three armed hoodlums and were heading towards Ughelli axis. The operatives immediately swung into action, trailed the hoodlums and their unrelenting effort paid off when the suspects on noticing that the operatives were closing in on them, abandoned the car and escaped into the bush at Ewu near Otu-Jeremi, Ughelli South LGA.
Confirming the arrest, DSP Bright Edafe, Police Public Relations Officer Delta State Command
Asaba stated that the vehicle has been recovered while a manhunt for the fleeing suspect is ongoing.”