Three\u00a0robbery suspects have been arrested by police in the Eastern Region for allegedly robbing some drivers in separate incidents on the Nsutam-Apedwa Highways.<\/p>\n
The suspects were apprehended by some residents of Akyem Obretema and almost lynched, but for police intervention.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”tOtd8fd20peC6sDrLpCjJ5WPBDCb5S6J”]The three have been identified as Buhari Dramani aged 23, Bismarck Ofori aged 19 and Yaw Owusu, aged 17.<\/p>\n
On the dawn of April 22, they allegedly robbed a truck transporting assorted goods from Accra to the consignee’s company in Wa in the upper West Region.<\/p>\n
Confirming the arrests to\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>,\u00a0the Eastern Regional Police PRO, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, noted that on reaching Akyem\u00a0Nsutam, near custom barrier, on the\u00a0Kumasi-Accra\u00a0highway, the driver stopped to rest, \u201cand at 5:30 am, an unidentified cargo bus alerted him that the rear of his car has been cut open and items\u00a0stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the unidentified driver, he saw the suspect\u2019s vehicle and gave its\u00a0description to the police, and the \u00a0Kibi Divisional patrol team\u00a0was put on standby at the Akyem -Apedwa junction.<\/p>\n The police team at Kibi eventually saw the robbers\u2019 car with Reg. No: GW 5346 Y, and signaled them to stop before giving a chase and firing warning shots leading to the occupants abandoning the car at Akyem Obretema, where they were apprehended by the residents.<\/p>\n \u201cThe patrol team searched the car which led to the recovery of 19 packets and five pieces of Oba Makarna spaghetti, 143 packets of Rambo milk, 3 bags of dried cocoa beans, 61 packets of Rambo mackerel in tomato sauce, one industrial step down sewing machine, a cutter, a telephone directory and a prepaid total ATM card,” ASP Tetteh said.<\/p>\n Second incident<\/strong><\/p>\n ASP Ebenezer Tetteh added that, on that same night, the armed robbers raided another truck conveying the Amarjaro Cocoa Company cocoa from Asante Akyem Domeabra to Tema.<\/p>\n The driver of the truck had made a stop\u00a0over at Akyem Apedwa to rest, where he was attacked by robbers who cut open the rear part of his rear truck,\u00a0and made away with three bags of cocoa.<\/p>\n \u201cThe driver said the suspects pulled a gun and other implements to hit his right leg and was wounded and made away with one of the machines and some rubber sandals,” ASP Tetteh noted.<\/p>\n “The sum of GH.200.00 was retrieved from suspect Buhari Dramani, whilst a telephone directory and a prepaid Total card was retrieved from the car with registration number GW 5346 Y, 19 and five pieces of Oba Makarna spaghetti, 143 packets of Rambo milk, 3 bags of cocoa, 61 packets of Rambo mackerel tomato sauce, one industrial step-down machine, and a cutter, were all retained by the police.”<\/p>\n ASP Ebenezer Tetteh added that, the suspects are in police custody assisting with further investigations and will be put before\u00a0court.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Neil Nii\u00a0Amatey\u00a0Kanarku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three\u00a0robbery suspects have been arrested by police in the Eastern Region for allegedly robbing some drivers in separate incidents on the Nsutam-Apedwa Highways. The suspects were apprehended by some residents of Akyem Obretema and almost lynched, but for police intervention. [contextly_sidebar id=”tOtd8fd20peC6sDrLpCjJ5WPBDCb5S6J”]The three have been identified as Buhari Dramani aged 23, Bismarck Ofori aged 19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[3,2164],"class_list":["post-313706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313706","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=313706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}