{"id":51127,"date":"2024-09-27T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-nab-ex-convict-over-alleged-kidnapping-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T17:04:30","slug":"police-nab-ex-convict-over-alleged-kidnapping-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-nab-ex-convict-over-alleged-kidnapping-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Police nab ex-convict over alleged kidnapping, armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old ex-convict, Richard John, over alleged kidnapping and armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The State Police Commissioner, Nemi Edwin-Iwo disclosed this on Friday during a news conference in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>Edwin-Iwo named other members of the gang, now at large, as Ishmael Peter, the gang leader; Emmanuel Audu and another simply identified as Lucky.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CP m, John served jail terms with the fleeing suspects at Koton-Karfe Prison in Kogi.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the suspects on May 7 invaded the home of one Promise Ehichoya at Illela Quarters, Ekpoma, tied him up and took him to an unknown destination and collected a ransom of N6 million before releasing him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also made away with the victim\u2019s vehicle and other household items, including phones of various make, electronics, jewelries and clothing from the house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle, a Toyota Venza marked LND 438 HM, was later abandoned and recovered by police operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActing on technologically driven intelligence, operatives of the State Intelligence Department SID, trailed and arrested Richard John Abdullahi at the Zone C area of Apo Resettlement Quarters, Abuja,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The police boss further stated that concerted efforts have been put in place to ensure the fleeing suspects are brought to book.<\/p>\n<p>Police nab ex-convict over alleged kidnapping, armed robbery<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old ex-convict, Richard John, over alleged kidnapping and armed robbery.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11031,4985,384,15,310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armed-robbery","category-kidnapping","category-metro","category-news","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}