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Operatives of the Delta State Police Command person smashed a notorious syndicate which specialised successful breaking into churches and stealing philharmonic instruments.
The breakthrough was achieved pursuing weeks of discrete quality gathering and surveillance.
The pack person and different subordinate of the syndicate who were arrested by the Police confessed to the crime.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Delta State Command, SP Bright Edafe explained that the cognition followed complaints received from acrophobic residents connected the activities of the syndicate.
Upon the report, Edafe said the Commissioner of Police, Delta State, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda directed DPOs to embark connected an intelligence-led probe and guarantee that these suspects were rounded up, arrested and brought to book.
“In compliance with the CP’s directives, connected 16th September 2025, the Command received a distress telephone astir an imminent equipped onslaught connected Dominican City Church on Polytechnic Road by Sticals Hotel.
“Responding swiftly, patrol teams from the Ogwashi-Uku Division, moving intimately with section vigilantes, led by the DPO, CSP Israel Okomoyon, intercepted a gold-coloured Toyota Sienna Space van, Reg. no: EFR-150-XB, with 2 occupants identified arsenic Emmanuel Emiowor ‘m’ (21yrs) of PTI Road, Warri, and Noah Philip ‘m’ (20yrs) of PTI Road, Warri.”
Edafe said a hunt of the suspects and the conveyance “yielded the pursuing exhibits 1 pump enactment gun, 3 azygous tube locally made guns, 1 locally fabricated revolver gun, 1 unrecorded cartridge, 1 robust rod utilized successful breaking religion doors.
Upon interrogation, the PPRO said the suspects confessed to being members of a syndicate that specialises successful attacking churches.
He said immoderate looted properties person already been recovered.
He added that some suspects, on with the exhibits were successful custody portion a discreet investigation has commenced.
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