Three-man robbery gang raids Delta town

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Detectives yesterday swooped on Delta Palace Hotel, Warri, after suspected armed robbers attacked the residents of Jeddo town in Delta State. The three suspected robbers escaped to the hotel with their loot, which include jewellery, handsets, ATM cards, voters’ cards, laptops, passport photographs, wrist watches and other valuables estimated at N814, 250.
It was gathered that the hoodlums started their operation at the house of one David Sunday and Oluwakemi Monica before moving to other house the town. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Celestina Kalu, who confirmed their arrest at the command’s headquarters, Asaba, said detectives from Ugborikoko Police Station acted on a tip off and raided Delta Palace Hotel, Airport Road, Warri, and arrested the hoodlums. She said: “One Peter Sunday, Collins Sakutu and Princewell Idiemuagele were arrested in connection with the crime.”
Kalu listed the items recovered from them to include, assorted jewellery, five different handsets, eight wrist watches, one kitchen knife, ATM cards, voters’ cards, passports, 12 sim cards (of different networks), clothes, shoes, bags and a rap of dried weeds suspected to be Indian hemp. “The victims have identified the recovered items as their properties,” she added.

The PPRO said the suspects had been subjected to preliminary investigation at Orerokpe Division. Kalu also said the suspected cult members and political thugs arrested during the state local government elections while accreditation was going on at wards/ units 15, 16, 17 and 19 at Orhuwohorun Primary School in Ovwian Aladja, were still in custody. The 50 suspects, who armed themselves with battle axes, cutlasses and gallons of fuel at the polling units, chased away Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC) officials and voters, before the police swooped on them. “On receipt of the information, patrol teams swiftly mobilised to the scene and arrested one Alex Obukowho aged 25 years with a cutlass while others escaped. Two other cutlasses were recovered at the scene,” Kalu added.
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