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  • Three arrested for cyber crime

    Three arrested for cyber crime

    Three persons have been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly using Internet to hack into people’s bank account and transferred the sum of N1,173,000 into their personal account.

    Suspects arrested are Kunle Bamidele, Otasowie Osarugue and Emalele Bright.

    They were alleged to have committed the offense between February and May this year.

    State Police Commissioner, Chris Ezike, who paraded the suspects said they stole the  money from the accounts of Rosemary Osague and and Ogbemudia Lydia.

    Also, seven notorious suspected kidnappers in the state were paraded.

    The suspects were alleged to have been responsible for the abduction of Rev Stephen Ogbebor, Mrs. Helen Ehigiator, some medical doctors and nurses.

    Names of the suspects were given as Ikpomwosa Owegie, Sunday Dahomi, Rasheed Muritala, Usman Hassan, Audu Haruna, Mohammed Haruna and Wilson Emobosa.

    The police commissioner said the suspects were arrested through coordinated tactical operation, use of forensic and advance technology.

    One of the suspects, Wilson, was said to be the last man standing of an eight-man kidnapping syndicate currently standing trial since 2015.

    Wilson was said to have formed another syndicate of a four man kidnapping gang.

    Ezike said the suspects would be charged to court after investigations have been completed.

  • Herbalist arrested over alleged murder of septuagenarian

    Herbalist arrested over alleged murder of septuagenarian

    A 51-year old herbalist, whose identity has not been revealed, has been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command over the murder of a 75-year old woman, Mrs. Betsy Egbeobamwonyi.

    Betsy was gruesomely murdered at her apartment as she was severally stabbed and her throat sliced.

    She was lying on the bed beside her four years old grandson when she was killed.

    Acting Public Relations Officer for Edo State Police Command, SP Stephen Onwochei who confirmed the incident  said the police acted on intelligence reports.

    Onwochei appealed to the deceased immediate family and members of the public to provide useful information that could lead to the arrest of the perpetrators.

    It will be recalled that the incident occurred at Oseye Street, Off Okunwague Street, Off Upper Sokponba Road, Ikpoba-Okha local government.

  • Police nabs notorious car snatchers in Edo 

    Police nabs notorious car snatchers in Edo 

    Five persons suspected to be notorious car snatchers within Benin City and environs have been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command.

    The suspects, Alao Samson, Christopher Obanugo, Okwuchukwu Ntagu, Dickson Ogiemwonyi and a spray painter, Godwin Atanu were arrested on March 8, after they snatched five cars from different individuals.

    Police said a Lexus RX 300 was sold by the gang for N120, 000 and a new Lexus jeep for N500, 000.

    Two of the recently stolen cars, a Ford Focus and Toyota Matrix were sprayed to another colour.

    Samson, w‎ho hails from Osun State said he usually disguised as a mechanic and whenever he was called to fix a vehicle, he would made away with the cars after the owner submitted their car keys.

    Ogiemwonyi, a graduate of Political Science from the University of Benin, who bought the Lexus Jeep said he suspected that it was a stolen car which made him to take it to a spray painter to change the colour.

    Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Osifo Abiodun, who paraded the suspects, described the arrest as a major breakthrough owing to the incessant reports of car snatching in the state capital.

    “These are suspects who specialise in car snatching within Benin and neighbouring communities. On February 18, 2016, a Nissan car was snatched by three armed men at gunpoint from the owner. And since, we have been on the trail of these armed robbers. It paid off three days ago on a tip off that a vehicle was being vandalised at a hideout, at a specific location.

    “In his (Atanu’s) workshop one of the stolen vehicles was recovered. His personal vehicle was also recovered. We are investigating it to know how he came about even his personal vehicle.‎”

    On the claim of innocence by the spray painter and his wife, Abiodun said, “Suspects will always give flimsy excuses. They will always have one or two stories to tell. He has been a spray painter over the years and highly experienced. But before you spray a vehicle, you ask genuine questions about the particulars of the vehicles. The vehicles themselves were not dented. So, how come he is spraying them and changing their colours?”

  • Police hunt driver, conductor over woman’s death

    Police hunt driver, conductor over woman’s death

    Men of the Edo State Police Command are currently hunting for a commercial bus driver and his conductor over last Saturday’s killing of a 51-year old woman during an argument over N20 change.

    Witnesses said the woman collapsed after she was hit on the chest with a spanner by the bus conductor and the driver was forced to take her to the hospital.

    Her corpse was later found dumped along the road in the morning by family members.

    The woman who was identified as Helen Ero was a trader at New Benin Market and had boarded a bus going to Oluku at about 8:00pm.

    She was said to have paid for two girls inside the bus before an argument ensued between her and the conductor.

    Edo Police spokesman, Osifo Abiodun, said the police had intensified efforts to arrest the suspects.

    He said intelligence officers had been deployed to nab the suspects.

    The Chairman of the Drivers’ Welfare Association at the Ugbowo axis, Comrade Jude Anormhen, said they are working with the police to arrest the suspect.

  • Edo: Police nab 43 criminals

    Edo: Police nab 43 criminals

    The Edo State Police Command has paraded 43 suspects for alleged murder, rape, defilement, robbery, kidnapping, impersonation and unlawful possession of firearms.

    Outgoing Police Commissioner Foluso Adebanjo paraded the suspects before reporters yesterday at the police headquarters in Benin, the state capital.

    The police chief alleged that the murder suspects – Lucky Dim, Christopher Jamaru, Ndidi Umokaro and a man identified simply as Obozoke – at various locations and on different dates murdered three persons.

    He identified their victims as Angela Aifesehi, who was allegedly killed and dumped at Emotan College field in Benin; Sunday Akpan, who was reportedly beaten up to death at the Okada Police Division and a man simply identified as Obozoke, who was reportedly attacked by his assailant.

    The police also paraded a 35-year-old Nasarawa State indigene, Yakubu John, for allegedly impersonating a journalist to obtain money from the public.

    Adebanjo said the suspect, on February 3, introduced himself as Yakubu Farouk of the Voice of America (VOA) and Voice of Germany (VOG) to the Chairman of Hausa Community in the state, Alhaji Badamasi Saleh.

    But Saleh said since John introduced himself as a reporter from the VOA, he attended to him.

    The Hausa leader said he became suspicious after John demanded for money.