By Austin Ogwuda
DELTA State Police Command says it is on top security challenges in the State including the arrest of a five-man gang that kidnapped a 70-year old woman and collected the sum of N7.9 million ransom before releasing securing her.
Police Public Relations Officer PPRO in the State, Bright Edafe, a Superintendent of Police SP disclosed this in a press statement on Tuesday.
According to him, “On l2/09/2024 (Thursday last week) at about 0130hrs, Crack Squad attached to Area Command Ughelli acting on a tip off, stormed a brothel cum criminal hideout in Ewu town Ughelli South LGA and arrested five suspects (names withheld by The Townhall).
“One single barrel gun, three locally made cut-to-size gun, cash sum of Four hundred and fifty thousand naira (N450,000.00) ransom one Moniepoint POS machine, one OPAY POS machine, wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp were recovered.
“They confessed to various armed robbery/kidnapping operations in Ughelli and environs, including the kidnap of a 70-year-old woman who they kidnapped on 08/09/2024 and collected the sum of Seven million, Nine hundred thousand naira ransom (N7,900,000) on 10/9/2024 before her release.
“The suspects are in custody and investigation is ongoing”, the statement added.
