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The operatives of the Quick Intervention Team of the Imo State Police Command have arrested seven ex-convicts who fled to the state from Abia State.
A spokesperson for the Imo State Police Command, Orlando Ikeokwu, told our correspondent that the suspects on February 1 snatched a Lexus 350 SUV, with the number plate, KSF 758 FS, in Aba, Abia State.
He said the command got the report and the QUIT squad swung into action.
The police spokesperson said, “Sequel to some painstaking and diligent investigation, the QUIT operatives arrested the following: Amado Kennedy, Igilegbe Chinwendu, Nwaorie Moses, Godfrey Ntosi, Chinedu Agwu, Eze Obinwanne and Ejiofor Egwe. At the point of arrest, the stolen SUV was recovered from them.
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Alleged car snatching: 7 arrested in Imo
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By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri
Seven persons have been arrested in Imo state, over alleged stealing of vehicles, days after they were said to have been released from prison on the same offence.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Orlando Ikeokwu, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Owerri.
Ikeokwu, said their arrest was made possible after the Imo police got a distress call from Aba in Abia state.
Given insight on how the Imo police arrested the suspects as well as recover the said stolen car, LEXUS 350 SUV, from the suspects all of who are males.