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Police arrest five suspected kidnappers in Delta
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In Delta, the state police command has arrested five suspected kidnappers in a brothel and criminal hideout in Ewu Community, in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state.
The suspects were arrested on September 12, 2024, at about 1:30 am in their hideout by the Crack Squad, attached to Area Command in Ughelli.
A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer for the state command, Bright Edafe, in Warri on Tuesday, said the suspects were aged between 25 and 48 years old.
Edafe listed items recovered from the suspects to include: one single barrel gun, three locally made cut-to-size guns, a cash sum of four hundred and fifty thousand naira (N450,000), one Moniepoint POS machine, one OPAY POS machine, and wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.
According to him, they confessed to various armed robbery and kidnapping operations in Ughelli and its environs, including the kidnapping of a 70-year-old woman, whom they collected a ransom of seven million, nine hundred thousand naira before her release.

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