{"id":409320,"date":"2018-03-12T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=409320"},"modified":"2018-03-12T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:19:07","slug":"police-grab-kingpins-royal-motors-robbery-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/police-grab-kingpins-royal-motors-robbery-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Police grab kingpins in Royal Motors robbery, others"},"content":{"rendered":"
The police have made two major arrests in connection with the Royal Motors Limited robbery, the killing of the Lebanese cashier in Tema and the Kwabenya cell break.<\/p>\n
The arrest of Kamaru Ibrahim, alias Anokwaletse, whose gang was involved in both the Royal Motors robbery and the killing of the Lebanese cashier, and Emmanuel Kotey, one of the escapees in the Kwabenya cell break, comes on the heels of other major arrests made between March 5 and 10, 2018.<\/p>\n
Eleven suspects were arrested from March 5 to 10, 2018.<\/p>\n
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr David Asante-Apeatu, told the Daily Graphic in Accra last Saturday that the police were on the heels of many other suspects whose identities were being shelved.<\/p>\n
He said the arrest of Kotey, whose picture the police did not have at the time of his escape, should send a signal to the rest of the criminals that the police were on their heels.<\/p>\n
Details<\/strong><\/p>\n Briefing the Daily Graphic in the presence of the Director-General in charge of Intelligence, Commissioner of Police (COP) Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, and the Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mr George Alex Mensah, Mr Asante-Apeatu said a collaboration between the Intelligence Directorate of the Ghana Police Service and the Accra and Ashanti Regional Police commands led to the arrest of Ibrahim and six other suspects at the Asawase Royal area in Kumasi last Saturday, March 10, 2018.<\/p>\n The other suspects, he said, were Safianu Mohammed Waheed Kwashie, alias Brisco; Farouk Mohammed, alias Alhaji; Tahiru Abubakar, alias Remember, alias Taller; Yussif Ismail, Faisal Mohammed, alias Dentini, and Ibrahim Anyass, alias Royal.<\/p>\n He said the Kumasi operation, which was led by the Manhyia Divisional Police, also resulted in the retrieval of a number of items from the suspects, including a vehicle and three unregistered motorbikes.<\/p>\n Mr Asante-Apeatu said at the time of his arrest, Ibrahim, 26, was driving a blue-black Hyundai Elantra saloon car with a DV number plate \u2014 DV 3759 A-18 \u2014 with a Ghana Police Service emblem embossed on the right-hand corner of the windscreen.<\/p>\n According to him, the police retrieved mobile phones from the suspects, including four iPhones, two Samsung, two Techno, two Nokia and one Itel phones.<\/p>\n He said the police also retrieved one face mask from Ibrahim\u2019s car, while a total of GH\u00a25,732 was retrieved from all the suspects.<\/p>\n