Police arrest three teenagers for robbery in Delta
Delta State Police Command officers apprehended three teenage suspected armed robbers following a raid on their ‘Shawarma’ joint base at Warri’s famous Enerhen Junction.
Idigbe Osreis (19) and Idigbe Perfect (16) were reportedly apprehended in their hideouts.
According to reports, a police undercover agent in the area spotted one of the suspects, Gift Peace, and later followed him to the location where he was apprehended.
The Divisional Police Officer ‘B’ Division, Warri, SP Bolarinwa Alabi, received a distress call concerning an armed robbery operation at Giwamu Junction in Warri on September 29, 2023, and led his men to the area where the 14-year-old suspect was arrested at the Suya spot.
During interrogation, the teenager reportedly confessed to being a member of an armed robbery gang that terrorizes Warri and its environs and that he has been robbing since he was seven years old.
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He mentioned other members and took the detectives to their hideouts.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, in a statement, said the gang members, upon sighting the operatives, opened fire from their unregistered tricycle.
According to a police spokesman, the operatives’ “due response” to the gangsters’ aggressiveness.
During the process, he stated that one of the suspects, later identified as the gang’s leader, sustained gunshot wounds and was transferred to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
According to a police official, exhibits retrieved from the suspects include the gang’s operating tricycle, one locally built cut-to-size single-barrel rifle with stocked expended ammunition, and three live cartridges.
The PPRO reported that efforts are still being made to apprehend the fleeing gang members and retrieve more of their operative weapons.
