Police smash robbery, cult gangs, recover pistol, others in Rivers

Steven Green and Adaugo Darlington,who disguises as pregnant to facilitate robbery of tricycle riders arrested by Police in Rivers

 

 

Steven Green and Adaugo Darlington,who disguises as pregnant to facilitate robbery of tricycle riders arrested by Police in Rivers

 

 

Police operatives in Rivers have arrested one Steve Green, a member of a robbery syndicate which specialises in dispossessing drivers of their tricycles and one Adaugo Darlington,a woman who usually disguised to be pregnant who they have been using as bait for their activities.

 

 

Darlington usually pretends to be pregnant to attract sympathy, while posing as a passenger alongside members of the robbery gang.

 

 

However, after boarding the tricycle, members of the robbery gang will use knives and machetes to attack the drivers and push him down while still in motion before going away with the tricycles.

 

 

They usually carried out their activities when the tricycle gets to isolated areas.

 

 

 

However, DSP Grace Iringe-Koko,the Acting Spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, in a statement on Sunday said the
the syndicate however ran out of luck on 31st March 2022, along Rumunduru-Eneka in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

 

 

According to her, police operatives of Eneka Division, while on routine patrol, got to the scene where their last victim, one Lasisi Akreem who was dispossessed of his tricycle was writhing in pains with machete cuts inflicted on him.

 

 

But the injured tricycle driver was able to describe his tricycle and the suspects.

 

 

Policemen then went after the suspects and were able to arrest two of them while the tricycle was recovered.

 

 

The victim was rushed to the hospital for medical treatment while efforts are on to nab the two others who escaped, Iringe-Koko said.

Two suspected members of a Cult group arrested with Pistol and hard drugs by police in Rivers

In a related development, operatives of the Rivers police acting on credible intelligence, raided a criminal hideout at Okehi Etche, where they successfully arrested two male suspects – Njoku Chimanya aged 19 years, and Chijioke Umesurum aged 20 years who are suspected to be members of a secret cult.

 

 

Items recovered from them are: a stainless English pistol with breech no. 323898, and some items suspected to be hard drugs.

 

 

The Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka Friday while reiterating the commitment of his command to combating crimes and criminality to a negligible level, assured that the suspects would be charged to court.

 

 

He also advised tricycle drivers to be wary of passengers boarding in groups, especially at night time.

 

 

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