Armed brigands fight cops at Lakeside

Crime & Punishment of Thursday, August 1, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-08-01

The exchange of fire between a gang of armed thieves and the police resulted in the recovery of some items belonging to the suspected criminals.

The alleged armed robbers, numbering about three, reportedly attacked a house in Santeo, near Lakeside, and stole their property, including household appliances, a total of 2,355 GH ¢ and an unregistered Toyota Corolla.

The police gave them a hard hunt in which there was an exchange of fire and possible recovery of the objects, but the suspects escaped into a nearby bush.

Effia Tenge, Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police, told the media that some of the items, with the exception of the money involved, had been recovered.

She recounted that on 20 July 2019, at approximately 01.05, a police patrol of the Accra Regional Police Command who was on duty near the area had been called from the information room of the Accra police station. national police that armed robbers had attacked a house in Santeo.

She added that when the patrol team went to the victims' home, which was behind the Big Dreams International School, the thieves had fled with the loot.

"The victims then told the police that it was around 1 am, three men armed with pistols and a paintbrush, one of them masked, broke into the house while they were asleep and took away the clothes. objects mentioned in a previous paragraph.

The victims went on to claim that armed robbers had taken the ignition key of an unregistered Toyota Corolla red sedan while they were leaving; owned by a friend who was parked in the yard to transport stolen goods.

"After taking the direction of the victims' thieves, the police launched a hot pursuit to the suspects and managed to catch up with them at a place near Ashaiman and Santeo Boundary where thieves were involved in an accident. "

According to her, the exhibits were sent to the Lakeside Police Station for investigation.