Police shoot suspected armed robber
The Police last Friday evening gunned down a suspected armed robber at Old Ningo in the Ningo-Prampram District in the Greater Accra Region.Felix Teye Akwetey, and his accomplices, Affum Agbekle, 22; Mohammed Nazil, 23, and Divine Tetteh, 24, opened fire on the police, which compelled them to return fire.
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During the exchange of fire, Akwetey was hit. He died later while the other suspects were overpowered and arrested.
Two other suspects managed to escape.
The body of Akwetey has been deposited at the Police Hospital pending autopsy.
Theft
According to the Sege District Commander of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Benjamin Buxton, at about 9.30 a.m. on June 17, 2016, a complainant from Sege filed a report at the police station that some people had broken into his home and bolted with his personal effects.
The items were a 32-inch flat screen TV, 25 pieces of assorted clothes, 20 cartons of tomtom canned tomatoes, a home theatre and clothing.
ASP Buxton stated that at about 5 p.m. the same day, the police received information that some people had been spotted packing items into a Hyundai H100 mini bus without a registration number and that the suspects had taken the coastal road from Sege towards Old Ningo.
He said a police team from the Prampram and Sege districts chanced on the suspects unloading the booty from the mini bus into a Toyota corolla with registration number GR 7562-13 at Old Ningo.
According to him, the suspects, on seeing the police, started firing. The police returned fire and in the process wounded Akwetey who died later.
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Retrieved items
Two locally made pistols, two motorbikes, a Hyundai H100 bus with its registration plate removed and a Toyota corolla with registration number GR 7562-13 were impounded, while all the stolen items from the complainant’s residence were recovered from the scene.
ASP Buxton said a search conducted at the deceased’s residence at Old Ningo led to the retrieval of two Samsung air conditioners, one damaged burner, one LG table top fridge, a heater and other items.
He said the police were still investigating the incident.