CHUKA UBAH
Police operatives attached to the Operation Puff Adder team today recorded another major breakthrough in their bid to rid Anambra State of criminal elements as they nabbed an armed robbery suspect and also recovered a Police Barreta pistol at Upper Iweka area in Onitsha.
According to SP Haruna Muhammed, PPRO, Anambra State Police Command, today 7th August, 2019, at about 6.47am, Operation Puff Adder operatives in conjunction with patrol team attached to Operation Kpochapu, while on ‘stop and search duty’ at the Upper Iweka area in Onitsha intercepted a bus with registration number UKP108ZU coming from Asaba.
After a thorough search, the operatives recovered a Police Beretta pistol with breech number AO-4909Z loaded with seven rounds of live ammunition, one expended ammunition and six different mobile phones in the possession of a suspect, Sunday Onyema, 35, of Orlu area in Imo State.
The Police spokesman, SP Mohammed, said that the suspect is assisting the Police with useful information to aid investigation after which he would be charged to Court for prosecution.
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