By Adadareporters
One Sunday Ogwa, from Obrubra, Cross River State, has been apprehended in an Enugu suburb over alleged car snatching.
The state police public relations officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, said on Tuesday evening that Ogwa, 27, was arrested by police operatives serving at the command’s Awkunanaw Police Division on 02/10/2023 at about 9.45pm.
He said the operatives ‘smashed a car snatching and stealing syndicate, arresting one male suspect’, adding that, “The operatives also recovered a light blue-coloured Lexus 330 jeep that the suspect and cohorts at large snatched at gunpoint from their female victim at Uwani, Enugu, on 28/09/2023 at about 8.10pm.”
He said Ogwa confessed to the crime, stating that his ‘cohorts invited him from Anambra State to join them in snatching and stealing vehicles in Enugu metropolis’. Ndukwe said the suspect would be arraigned in court upon completion of the investigation.
Meanwhile, the state commissioner of police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, has hailed the efforts of the operatives and ‘for quickly adjusting to his operational policing strategies’. He affirmed ‘the unwavering commitment of the police to sustain the onslaught against unrepentant criminals in Enugu State’.
