{"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\/2014\/06\/woman-52-two-others-arrested-for-shoplifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 52, two others arrested for shoplifting"},"content":{"rendered":"
Three persons, including a 52- year-old woman, have been arrested by the La Police in Accra for shop-lifting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
They are Agnes Quaye, 52, Richard Annan, 33, a taxi driver, and Richard Asare, 32, a mason.<\/p>\n
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
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
Stealing in taxi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 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’s sales of a shop.<\/p>\n 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 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 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 Watchdog committee<\/strong><\/p>\n 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 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 The police said the suspects later sold the items at the Makola Market in\u2008Accra after which they shared the money.<\/p>\n 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>\n<\/div>\n Source: Graphic<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[17],"yoast_head":"\n