{"id":53116,"date":"2024-10-09T19:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-in-delta-recover-ransom-gun\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T19:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:04:37","slug":"police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-in-delta-recover-ransom-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-arrest-suspected-kidnapper-in-delta-recover-ransom-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspected kidnapper in Delta, recover ransom, gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Police in Delta State have arrested a robbery suspect who is allegedly involved in kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Timothy Ochuko, 42, was arrested on October 5, 2024, by the operatives of CP-SAT led by ASP Julius Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State Police Command Public Relations Officer SP Bright Edafe confirmed the report in a statement which stated: \u201cConsequently, on October 7, 2024, at about 4:35 pm, acting on the suspect statement, the N500,000 was recovered from the suspect\u2019s account, which was part of his share of N1,100, 000 from the N4,000,000 collected as ransom from a victim (name withheld) whom they kidnapped on September 25, 2024, in Ughelli town and forcefully withdrew the amount from her FCMB bank account before releasing her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to SP Edafe: \u201cHe led the operatives to the house of his gang member, where the suspect, on sighting the police, took to his heels, and one Berretta pistol was recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson affirmed that the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrest suspected kidnapper in Delta, recover ransom, gun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Delta State have arrested a robbery suspect who is allegedly involved in kidnapping. The suspect, Timothy Ochuko, 42,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1535,5927,384,15,310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta","category-kidnapper","category-metro","category-news","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53116","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=53116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}