Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have arrested five suspected kidnappers and car snatchers who collected ransom from four kidnapped victims in the state.
The suspects were identified as Egbo Michael alias Ejima, aged 32, of Umuedeachi-Amechi in Enugu South LGA; Patrick Tochukwu Onwurah alias Jumping Chicken aged 37, of Umunze in Urumba South LGA of Anambra State, described as the coordinator and receiver of all the snatched vehicles; Mazi Chukwuebuka aged 29, of Lokpaukwu in Umunneochi LGA of Abia State, a mechanic and specialist in deactivating tracking devices installed in snatched vehicles; Ndubuisi Akanonu, aged 48, of Ezinachi in Okigwe LGA of Imo State (receiver of a snatched vehicle) and Nwadi Obinna, aged 43, of Lokpanta Ezemekwu in Umunneochi LGA of Abia State, specialist in changing the engine numbers of snatched vehicles.
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According to the state’s Commissioner of Police, Kanayo Uzuegbu, who paraded the suspects before the media, the suspects and cohorts at large perpetrated several acts of kidnapping, armed robbery and car snatching in different locations of Enugu metropolis.
The CP disclosed that the suspects were arrested in January and in different locations of Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo states for conspiring with others at large to perpetrate multiple acts of kidnapping, armed robbery and car snatching.