Police Operatives of the Enugu State Command, serving in the New Haven Division, have arrested 27-year-old Abuchi Kenneth and his alleged partner in crime, Ifeanyi Odu, 29, for breaking into a car parked along the road at Rangers Avenue, Enugu and stealing a Samsung Galaxy and Infinix Smartphones.
The State Police spokesman, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Daniel Ndukwe, said that the suspects were arrested on September 24, 2024, at about 4 p.m.
Ndukwe said that a preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects, who respectively gave their addresses as Zuba, Abuja, and Nekede Owerri, Imo State, surreptitiously broke into the parked car and made away with the phones.
He added: “However, upon receiving information on the criminal act, the operatives promptly went after, intercepted, and arrested the suspects at Otigba roundabout, Enugu, recovering the phones and their operational vehicle, a Toyota Corolla car with reg. no. KUJ 614 CF. The suspects will be arraigned in court soonest.”
