Imo State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike
Operatives of the Federal Special
Anti-Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a
suspected kidnapper, Uchechukwu Okoro.
The state Commissioner of Police, Chris
Ezike,
on Monday said the number of exhibits recovered from the suspect
was “mind boggling.”
The police had on Saturday smashed a gang of six. While three were arrested, the other three died in a gun duel with the police.
The CP said 32-year-old Okoro, who was
part of the gang, was rounded up through a coordinated operation led by
the FSARS commander, Victor Geoffrey, a Superintendent of Police.
He said two expended AK-47 cartridges were recovered from the scene.
According to the CP, in the early hours
of Monday, one of the three members of the gang arrested during the
Saturday operation, Chidera Nzeagwu, aka Pharaoh, led the
police to Nsokpo in Ogbaku, Mbaitoli LGA, where one pump-action rifle,
loaded with seven cartridges, an English pistol, 26 pieces of
ammunition, 18 AK-47 cartridges, were recovered from him.
“The items were hidden in a polythene bag in an uncompleted building adjacent his parents’ house at Ogbaku,” the CP said.
He said Sylvester made confessional
statement that led to the recovery of one AK-47 rifle, two magazines,
and 78 live cartridges.
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