Police in Enugu State have arrested 4 male suspects of a car-stealing syndicate whereas recovering 4 suspected stolen autos and quite a few automobile keys.
This was disclosed in an announcement by the state police public relations officer DSP Daniel Ndukwe on Monday.
The suspects are Anioko Chukwujekwu aged 32, the syndicate’s kingpin, Ugochukwu Okoh aged 41 and Nkemdi Idah aged 65 and Nwoke Sunday aged 57.
He said that the suspects had been arrested following the mounting of operational surveillance by the Operatives, upon receiving a number of stories of the automobiles stealing inside the Kenyetta Market axis in Uwani, Enugu.
In keeping with him, the syndicate’s kingpin Chukwujekwu was caught whereas making an attempt to steal a automobile from the place it was parked out there and quite a few keys had been recovered from him.
In the course of the preliminary investigation, the suspect confessed to the crime whereas his confessional statements led to the additional arrest of three extra suspects in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, who’re his conspirators, receivers, and sellers of the stolen autos.
The police recovered a complete of 4 completely different fashions of Mercedes-Benz automobiles, comprising two 190 E (respectively ash-coloured with Reg. No. SKA 292 AA and red-coloured with out Reg. No.), one blue-coloured C-Class with Reg. No. AGL 512 EY, and black-coloured 230 E (V-Boot) with Reg. No. CHR 50 AE, had been recovered from them.
The pressure picture maker additional disclosed that the suspects can be arraigned in court docket and prosecuted as soon as investigations are concluded.
