One person arrested in Mpohor gold shop robbery
Police have arrested one person in connection with the robbery of a gold shop in the Mpohor District in the Western Region last Saturday.
The police are currently on the heels of eight others alleged to have been involved in the robbery.
According to the police, a group of heavily armed men launched a violent robbery attack in the Mpohor District last Saturday night, leaving one person injured.
Information
The police said at about 7:30 p.m., they received information indicating that a group of armed men in masks and wielding pump action guns, numbering about nine, had invaded two gold buying shops.
"They robbed them of unspecified amounts of money and quantity of gold, shot one Eric Kwofie, aged 43, and bolted into a nearby bush".
However, the police said frantic efforts were being made to arrest all the robbers.
Bank
Meanwhile, last Friday, the Anti-Armed Robbery Response Unit (AARU) of the Ghana Police Service foiled an attempted robbery at the MRB Rural Bank at Winneba in the Central Region.
The police said around 1 a.m. last Friday, the bank’s alarm was triggered, drawing the attention of the patrol team on duty.
The patrol team, it said, sensing an unusual activity, proceeded to the bank for enquiries.
Location
"On reaching the location, they were met with sporadic gunshots from the robbers.
After a brief exchange of fire, the robbery gang bolted from the scene, leaving behind one pump action gun and other tools used in the robbery," the police said.
The AARU team, the police said, then assisted the investigators and the crime scene was processed, adding that one pump action gun was retrieved together with one empty cartridge from the scene.
The police said the investigation conducted so far suggested that the robbery was carried out by about five armed men.
"They attempted to break into the bank vault, but for the timely intervention of the police patrol team who foiled the plans of the robbery gang,” the police said in a statement.
Gang
"The modus operandi of this robbery gang is similar to that of the group involved in the earlier rural bank robberies, suggesting that the same gang may be responsible for all the robberies," they said and that "intelligence shows that they may be hiding in Kumasi".
The police said a team of surveillance officers from the AARU was still in Kumasi trying to locate their place(s) of abode.
