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From Joseph Obukata, Warri
Usman Bello, a 40-year old male, who disguised himself as a mentally unstable person, has been arrested by police in Delta State, with a locally made fabricated Beretta pistol, in an uncompleted building along Issele-Asagba Expressway.
The Police Command’s RRS operatives apprehended the suspect on Friday, while acting on credible information that some suspected robbers were sighted in an uncompleted building along Issele-Asagba Expressway.
The state Police Spokesman, Bright Edafe, who confirmed this to newsmen in Warri, on Friday, said that two suspects, Amaechi Micheal and Ogochukwu Ogbode, who targeted shops and houses at night, were also apprehended along DLA road, Asaba.
The suspects allegedly loot shops and transport the stolen items to Port Harcourt to sell.
Police spokesman said that investigation and efforts to arrest the receivers of these stolen items are ongoing.
In a related development, acting on credible intelligence, the special squad deployed to Ughelli by Commissioner of Police Delta State, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, on Sunday 5, May, 2024, apprehended three suspected armed robbers in Sapele and recovered their weapons, including one Beretta pistol and one locally made cut-to-size gun.
The suspects, all residents of Sapele, were found in possession of weapons, including three cutlasses, phones, and ATM cards belonging to victims.
“Some of their victims have identified the suspects and their valuables recovered from them,” the police spokesman said.
Investigators, while interrogating the suspects, discovered that they have so far taken part in six of the armed robbery operations in Sapele. The suspects are in custody, and the investigation is ongoing, Edafe added.
