{"id":26578,"date":"2014-06-22T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T08:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=26578"},"modified":"2014-06-22T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T08:15:18","slug":"woman-52-two-others-arrested-for-shoplifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=26578","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 52, two others arrested for shoplifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<div>\n<p>Three persons, including a 52- year-old woman, have been arrested by the La Police in Accra for shop-lifting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>They are Agnes Quaye, 52, Richard Annan, 33, a taxi driver, and Richard Asare, 32, a mason.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that they visited grocery and secondhand clothing shops where one of them posed as a buyer, while Agnes pilfered the items, after which they bolted in a taxi.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested last Wednesday after stealing from a shop at Tse-Addo, behind the Trade Fair Centre, while escaping in a taxi driven by Annan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stealing in taxi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The La Police Crime Officer, Ms Cecilia Arko, said the suspects were arrested at 7p.m. after they had stolen a bag containing the previous day&#8217;s sales of a shop.<\/p>\n<p>She said they had used the same modus operandi to steal from a number of shops in the Eastern, Central and Greater Accra regions.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Arko said a number of victims had made reports to the police that various items and sums of money had been stolen from them by the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, while Annan waited in a taxi parked at a safe distance, Agnes and Asare went into the shops to steal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watchdog committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During interrogation, Ms Arko said the police found out that the suspects had been stealing for the past three months \u201cThat is what they have been doing for a living,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the stolen items, according to the police, were bales of secondhand clothing, children\u2019s footwear, mobile phone credit cards and alcoholic drinks.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the suspects later sold the items at the Makola Market in\u2008Accra after which they shared the money.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of the Watch Dog Committee in the area, led by the Assembly Member for Tse-Addo and Mantiase, Mr Emmanuel Nartey Kwapong, arrested the three persons and handed them over to the police.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: Graphic<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three persons, including a 52- year-old woman, have been arrested by the La Police in Accra for shop-lifting. They are Agnes Quaye, 52, Richard Annan, 33, a taxi driver, and Richard Asare, 32, a mason. It is alleged that they visited grocery and secondhand clothing shops where one of them posed as a buyer, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-26578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}