Imo: Police nab two criminal suspects, recover arms, stolen items

Operatives of the Imo State Police Command person arrested 2 suspected equipped robbers and recovered a pistol and 7 rounds of unrecorded ammunition pursuing a swift effect to a distress telephone successful Owerri.

In a property connection issued from the table of the Command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye, the suspects, Solomon Ejekwe, 29, of Ubaha Orodo successful Mbaitoli LGA, and Emeka Charles, 35, of Umuopara Ngugo successful Ikeduru LGA, were apprehended by operatives of the Orji Divisional Headquarters successful collaboration with the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit.

Okoye added that their apprehension followed a distress telephone from members of the nationalist reporting an equipped robbery incidental astatine Aladinma, Owerri. Acting promptly connected the information, operatives mobilised to the country and successfully apprehended the suspects.

He revealed that preliminary probe showed a unfortunate was washing his car astatine a car lavation located astatine Mangrove, Aladinma, erstwhile the suspects approached him, robbed him of his golden concatenation astatine gunpoint, and fled the country connected a motorcycle.

“The victim, however, pursued the suspects successful his conveyance and succeeded successful knocking them down. They were subsequently overpowered and beaten by an aggravated mob earlier constabulary operatives arrived astatine the country and took them into custody.

“The suspects person been rushed to the constabulary aesculapian centre for aesculapian attraction and volition beryllium arraigned successful tribunal o...