{"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

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Police kills notorious robber, arrest car thief in Delta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The injured suspect was rushed to the hospital where he was confirmed dead by the doctor on duty.”<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Delta State police command said it has arrested a 33 years old suspected car thief, Chineye Nwakego \u2018m\u2019 at Asaba the state capital while trying to steal a parked Toyota Camry.<\/p>\n

According to police, the suspects has succeeded in opening the vehicle belong to a mother of three, through the aid of an improvised door opener but met a steering lock and was trying to unlock the same when luck ran against him as the owner of the vehicle came and raised alarm that led to the suspect almost being mobbed but for the timely intervention of the police.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Delta state, CP Ari Muhammed Ali, has urged residents of the state to avoid crime, noting that no criminal in the state will be spared.<\/p>\n

While also urging members of the public to always caution their wards and advises them to have a honest means of livelihood instead of engaging in crimes, the CP assured members of the public that the Command will continue to be on its toes to sustain the fight against crime in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in Sapele Division, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta state, have gunned down a suspected notorious armed robber terrorising Sapele residents. 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. According to a statement by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1812402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9518,14,9519,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}