DSP spokesman for Bright Edafe State Police Headquarters, who issued a statement Sunday, said GRA Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Asaba, received an emergency call regarding the “accident.”
Delta State Police in southern Nigeria arrested a 22 year old car wash worker named Emmanuel Chidera for selling a Mercedes GLK 350 that had been given to him to be washed.
DSP spokesman for Bright Edafe State Police Headquarters, who issued a statement Sunday, said GRA Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Asaba, received an emergency call regarding the “accident.”
Said that on May 30, the man took his Mercedes GLK 350 to a car wash on Mariam Babangida Way for a wash, but when he came back to pick up the car, he was told that one of the employees had stolen the car and none of them knew where he was.
CSP Privacy Officer Spencer Tyozua directed investigators to launch an intelligence investigation that led to the suspect’s arrest Wednesday in Asaba District Court.
According to Edafe, the suspect admitted during interrogation that he had taken the car to Benin City, Edo State, where he intended to sell it.
He added that the vehicle had been recovered and efforts were being made to apprehend his accomplices.
Similarly, a police spokesman went on to explain that following several reported cases of vehicles being removed from parking lots in Asaba, Warri, Ughella and surrounding areas, State Police Commissioner CP Wale Abass ordered the commander’s area and privacy officers to be cracked down on the fad, nipped in the bud and warned that if this trend continues, the officers involved will be severely punished.
Under the CP policy, the Ughella Division Privacy Officer, under the close supervision of Ughella ACP Area Commander Adebayo Ademola, on Thursday arrested two suspects named Phillip Ekugbe and Onome Erikefe, both from the Ekpan township in the state’s Effurun region.
The suspects allegedly specialized in car thefts in and around Warri and took the stolen vehicles to Ughelli where they dismantled and sold the vehicle parts.
According to Edafe, after their arrest, 74 car tyres, 16 car engines, eight gearboxes, 15 engine batteries, two motorcycle engines and seven vehicles suspected of theft were recovered.
The vehicles include a Toyota Corolla no. AJ 638 EFR, Toyota Carina with no.WW 748 SL, Toyota Corolla NR. DU 60 LSR, Toyota Corolla NR. WWR 799 AE, Toyota Corolla with registration number. KSF 758 DC and an unregistered Nissan car.
The suspects are in custody and investigations are ongoing.
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