Two ex-policemen arrested for car snatching
Two ex-policemen and their civilian accomplice have been arrested for allegedly snatching a four-wheel vehicle from its owner in Koforidua.
The suspects, Augustine Nti Peprah, Eric Anto, the ex-policemen and their accomplice, Anthony Dagadu, were arrested at Kasoa when Peprah was about to cannibalise the unregistered four-wheel Inifnity vehicle at Gomoa Budumburam in the Central Region.
Although the reason for the dismissal of Peprah and Anto from the Ghana Police Service is yet to be established, the Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohonu, told newsmen in Accra yesterday that Peprah was stationed at Gomoa Feteh in the Central Region while Anto was with the Rapid Deployment Force of the Ghana Police Service in Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
He said initial investigations had so far proven that after the dismissal of the two men from the police, they allegedly teamed up with Dagadu to be snatching cars from other regions.
He said after snatching the vehicles, the suspects would often cannibalise the vehicle before selling it in Accra.
On the events leading to the arrest of the suspects, he said, the three suspects on April 4, this year, snatched the vehicle from its owner in Koforidua about 10:30p.m. and brought it to Gomoa Budumburam to cannibalise.
Mr Yohonu said the police acted on intelligence leading to the arrest of Peprah when he was in the process of cannibalising the vehicle on April 12, 2013.
He said the police retrieved a police uniform and GH¢1,700 in the vehicle at the time Peprah was arrested.
According to him, Anto and Dagadu were later arrested in their hide-outs at Kasoa and Accra respectively.
Mr Yohonu appealed to persons who had had their vehicles snatched from them to report immediately to the police for assistance.
Story: Dominic Moses Awiah
