Police arrest seven armed robbery suspects, recovers arms in Imo university community

The Nigeria Police successful Imo State has busted a transgression pack operating wrong the FUTO and Ihiagwa assemblage axis successful Owerri West LGA and arrested 7 equipped robbery suspects pursuing an quality led operation. 

The cognition besides led to betterment of sundry arms and ammunition pursuing a hunt of the criminals’ hideout.

A property connection issued done the table of the Command’s Spokesperson, Henry Okoye, stated that the cognition starring to the apprehension of the suspects was successful enactment with the Command’s sustained efforts to combat convulsive transgression wrong the State.

Okoye hinted that the cognition followed a study made connected July 18, 2026, by a pupil of the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede who alleged that helium was robbed astatine gunpoint on the FUTO- Ihiagwa road.

He asserted that operatives of the Command acting connected the report, carried retired strategical cognition starring to the apprehension of 3 suspects, Stanley Nwachukwu, Moses Okezie and Gabriel Confidence.

According to him, the suspects, aft being transferred to the Anti Kidnapping Unit for further investigation, confessed to b...