{"id":73009,"date":"2014-12-10T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=73009"},"modified":"2014-12-10T09:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:26:48","slug":"kumasi-fugitive-rearrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/12\/kumasi-fugitive-rearrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi fugitive rearrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p>One of the two suspects who escaped from police custody at the Suame Divisional Police in Kumasi has been recaptured from his hideout at Abuakwa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>Contrary to earlier reports that the fugitives were murder suspects, the police said they had rather been held for armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Kyei Baffour, who together with his accomplice, Yaw Addae, were being detained for armed robbery, escaped from police custody on November 21, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;EKcE3qP5EtJtpoiGo4UBdRkKlCCMcKIN&#8221;]Their escape led to the interdiction of the policemen who were on duty that day.<\/p>\n<p>The policemen had earlier been given 10 days to produce the fugitives but failed to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Baffour was, however, rearrested at his hideout at Abuakwa early yesterday morning, together with Sam Boadi, one of his accomplices in another robbery incident.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing the press, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr Osei Ampofo-Duku, said the police were still looking for the other escapee.<\/p>\n<p>He said during police investigations, a mobile phone belonging to a robbery victim was retrieved from one Akosua Serwah, 39, who claimed her younger brother, Emmanuel Adusei, had given it to her.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ampofo-Duku said the lady was being held for dishonestly receiving, while the police pursued the brother who was currently at large.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Military men in robbery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the police have arrested three men suspected to be part of a gang of nine who have been robbing mining sites at Jacobu and Manso Nkwanta in the Amansie area of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The three, who were all dressed in military uniforms, had gone to the mining site at Abrokyire in the Amansie Central.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Ampofo-Duku, residents of the ares who had been victims of the robberies fell a tree to block the road but the robbers managed to remove the tree and passed through.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the robbers got to Hiayeya, another town in the district, the people there too mounted a road block, and when the suspects tried to remove it, a confrontation ensued between the residents and the robbers, leading to two people sustaining gunshot and machete wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ampofo-Duku said the people, however, managed to arrest the three suspects.<\/p>\n<p>They are David Ahiatse, Kwaku Asamoah and Kwadwo Manu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/graphic.com.gh\/news\/general-news\/35193-kumasi-fugitive-rearrested.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Graphic Online<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the two suspects who escaped from police custody at the Suame Divisional Police in Kumasi has been recaptured from his hideout at Abuakwa. 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