On the 18th of June, 2025, at about 12:20 pm, Eagle-Net Surveillance Team stationed at Ughelli North Local Government Area, while on Routine stop and search duty along Otokutu Bridge, Warri, intercepted a black Toyota Corolla car with registration number RSH 90 RC driven by Mr Telvin Richmond, 27 and Mr Frank Obiorah, 26.
Delta State Police spokesman, a Superintendent of Police, Bright Edafe, said the vehicle and the suspects were subjected to a thorough search of the car, a locally made cut-to-size gun, two yellow hand-bands inscribed with NBM “neo black movement”, one battle axe and a wooden pistol, all concealed inside the compartment of the vehicle doors, were recovered.
Edafe added: “Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects are members of the Aiye confraternity, and he bought the gun in the year 2024 for the sum of eighty-seven thousand naira from another suspect presently at large. Suspects are in custody, and the investigation is ongoing.”
In an earlier development, operatives of the Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cybercrime Squad, while carrying out an investigation against a native doctor by name- Okonji Chimeze, 47, of Umuehe Quarter Ibusa, on the 14th of June, 2025 at about 6:30 am, acting on a credible intelligence, operatives of the Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cybercrime Squad stormed the suspect’s residence at Ibusa.
“A search Warrant was executed in the premises of the suspect during which two automatic pump-action guns and one cutlass were recovered hidden inside the ceiling of the suspect’s room. The suspect and exhibits are in custody as the investigation is ongoing,” said Edafe.
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