Police Intercepts Suspected Armed Robbers, Recovers 4 Pump Action Rifles (Photo)

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Police Intercepts Suspected Armed Robbers, Recovers 4 Pump Action Rifles (Photo)

TWO suspected members of an armed robbery gang have been arrested by the Oyo state Police Command, after four pump action rifles and 10 packets of live cartridges were found in their car. Also nabbed were two others who they confessed they were taking the guns to.
The suspects are Nwagbo Andrew, Nwadiobu Okechukwu, Abdulazeez Amao and Ezekiel Adefula.

According to the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, two of the suspects, Andrew and Okechukwu, were nabbed by the Federal Highway Patrol on December 2, at about 10.49p.m. in a Volkswagen car with registration number UWN 462 AZ along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

The police commissioner disclosed to Crime Reports that the two men, who were suspected to have sinister plan of joining their colleagues to carry out an evil plan, attempted to escape when they were stopped by the police, but were apprehended before they could carry out their intention.

“When a search of their vehicle was conducted, four new pump action automatic rifles and 10 packets of live cartridges were found where they were concealed in the car,” the CP stated further.

Andrew, who said he was based in Onitsha, Anambra State, admitted that the guns were found with him. Giving the reason for possession of firearms, He said: “I was cash strapped, so I brought the guns to a friend, Amoo, in order to make some money. I collected the guns from Okechukwu. I know people who have been doing the business, and I felt that I could be part of it to make money.

“I am not an armed robber. I usually buy each gun from Okechukwu at the rate of N95,000 or N100,000. I, in turn, will sell it between N100,000 and N110,000.”[ads4]