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17-YEAR-OLD GIRL, FOUR OTHERS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERY

Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have arrested five suspected members of a robbery gang including a 17-year-old girl. 


Information available indicates that the suspects had on a robbery operation blocked the road at the Garki axis of Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway and robbed travelers.


The teenage girl, Jennifer Nwafor was arrested for harbouring one of the male criminals. The suspects are;

Kasie Ani (male) aged 25, Tochukwu Igwe (male) aged 25, Felix Maduakonam (male) aged 24, Chidera Okoye (male) aged 21 and Jennifer Nwafor (female) aged 17.


Their arrest was sequel to the Team’s swift response to a distress call alleging that the suspects blocked the road at the Garriki axis of Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway and were robbing travelers.


The four (4) male suspects were consequently arrested and the victims were rescued, while the female suspect was arrested thereafter, for harbouring one of the male suspects.


Three (3) mock guns that they used in the criminal operation, twenty-one (21) pieces of wrappers, clothes, phones, ATM cards and other valuables belonging to their victims were confiscated from the suspects.

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