Police Arrest 30-year-old Car Snatcher In Calabar

Cross River State Police Command has arrested 30-year-old Mr. Akaniyene Sunday Edem aft helium and his pack members snatched a Toyota Jeep Highlander astatine gunpoint from 1 Mrs. Wofi Eshiet Joshua of 16A Azikima Street, Spring Road, Calabar, connected September 12, 2025 astatine 4 pm.

Police peputy nationalist relations officer, Mr. Igiri Ewa, disclosed this to LEADERSHIP successful a telephone speech yesterday.

Ewa said the suspect, who is simply a autochthonal of Nkwot Nsit colony of Nsit Ibiom LGA successful Akwa Ibom State, was aboriginal arrested by the police, portion different pack members escaped aft the constabulary gave them a blistery pursuit on Odukpani, Calabar -Itu national highway.

“The conveyance was dispossessed from the owner, Mrs. Wofi Eshiet Joshua of 16A Azikima thoroughfare Spring road, Calabar astatine astir 1607hrs of 12th September, 2025.

“A distress telephone telephone received by the Command astir the incidental caused the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bello Afegbua, to bid a lockdown.”

A connection from the Police Public Relations Officer, Police PPRO Irene Ugbo, dated September 14,2025, sighted by LEADERSHIP stated that men of the bid swung into enactment aft the distress call.

“This paid off, arsenic men from 11 Pmf Calabar on Odukpani Road flagged down the suspected stolen jeep connected its mode to Akwa-Ibom State, but the hoodlums refused to stop.

” They were fixed a blistery pursuit which made them to abandoned the jeep with Reg.no-Kaduna-DKA-759-KY and escaped into the adjacent bush wherever 1 of them was arrested.”

In different improvement astatine Ugep assemblage successful Yakkur section authorities country of the state, astatine astir 1740hrs September 13, 2025, the Divisional Police officer, with the assistance of members of the community, besides arrested a. 21-year-old Mr. Godswill Okoi of Ijima street, who was suspected to beryllium a subordinate of Vikings Confraternity.

The items recovered from him see a locally fabricated Pistol, 2 BB cartridges, charms, 1 achromatic bag, and a currency magnitude of 7 1000 naira only.

The authorities commissioner of constabulary , CP Rashid Bello Afegbua, lauded his men for punctual effect to incidents, and urged members of the nationalist to spot it arsenic a work to supply utile accusation to the constabulary for effectual policing to marque the authorities safe.