The Imo State Police Command has paraded a 23-year-old Elijah Chigemezu who specializes in snatching phones from unsuspecting victims at gunpoint.
Also arrested were 27-year-old John Chukwudi a native of Ntu in Ngor-Okpala LGA Imo State and one Chibeze Tasie, 32, who was arrested at Naze.
In a release from the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Henry Okoye, he said that the arrest of the suspects was effected by the operatives of Nekede Divisional Headquarters through intelligence-led operation and painstaking investigation.
He also stated that the operation that led to the arrest of the suspects is a confirmation of the command’s resolve and unalloyed determination to bring crime to its minimum point in the state.
“One of the suspects, John Chukwudi, ‘m’, 27yrs, a native Ntu in Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State was arrested on August 14, 2024 while on intelligence-led patrol with the local vigilantes, along Human Race Hospital Road, Nekede.
“Recovered from him include one locally made pistol and five rounds of live cartridges.
“On interrogation, he confessed to being a member of the black axe confraternity cult group and stated that the gun was given to him by a member of his syndicate, Ugochukwu Ndubuisi, aka Dimzi Gate, who is at large,” Okoye stated.
On the arrest of Elijah, who is a native of Ezzamgbo in Ebonyi State, the Police spokesperson stated that he was apprehended on August 11, 2024, along Cluster Road, Naze, in the very act of dispossessing a young man his phone and personal belongings at gunpoint and was arrested following a swift response to a distress call by police operatives in synergy with the military.
“Recovered from him is one locally made gun as he confessed to the crime upon interrogation,” he stated.
The arrest of Chibieze Tasie at No 1 Naze, according to Okoye, was effected following a thorough investigation into a reported case of motorcycle snatching in Nekede and upon interrogation, he confessed to having conspired with one Ndubisi, ‘m’ who is now at large to snatch motorcycles from unsuspecting motorcyclists in Nekede axis.