{"id":1812401,"date":"2021-06-27T17:08:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/?p=1812401"},"modified":"2021-06-27T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:08:52","slug":"police-kills-notorious-robber-arrest-car-thief-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/police-kills-notorious-robber-arrest-car-thief-in-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Police kills notorious robber, arrest car thief in Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police in Sapele Division, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta state, have gunned down a suspected notorious armed robber terrorising Sapele residents<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n The police, it was learnt shot down the robbery suspect during a gun duel between its men and the armed robbery gang at Amukpe area of the town.<\/p>\n According to a statement by the Acting Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State Command, Dsp Bright Edafe, the suspect whose name was given as Diamond a.k.a. Fowlboy and his gang engaged the police in a gun battle at the weekend, following a tip off of their presence in the area by a distressed caller.<\/p>\n The police statement state thus, “The deadly armed robber met his waterloon 26\/6\/2021 at about 0530hrs after a distress call was received by the Divisional Police Officer Sapele Division from tropical area of Amukpe sapele that three man gang of armed robbers were in the house of one man(name withheld) in Amukpe Sapele.<\/p>\n “The DPO, Sapele Division, CSP Harrison Nwabuisi, immediately detailed Patrol teams \u00a0to the scene in conjunction with vigilantes, when the combined team of Police and vigilante arrived the scene, the armed robbers engaged them in a gun duel which was returned by the police, one notorious armed robber who has been terrorizing Amukpe area of Sapele named Diamond \u2018m\u2019 surname unknown a.k.a FOWLBOY was gun down during the gun duel while others escaped with bullet injuries.<\/p>\n