[ 2021-02-24 ]

Ghana’s biggest car snatching syndicate busted with 7 stolen cars
A car snatching syndicate that can pass for the
biggest in the history of the country has been
arrested in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital,
MyNewsGh.com has confirmed.

Police indicated following numerous complaints
from residents about their vehicles being snatched
at gunpoint by miscreants mostly robbers, they
devised a strategy to nib such criminal activities
in the bud.



As a result, a patrol team detailed for this
special operation on the dawn of Monday February
22, 2021 chanced on a black and yellow Kia Picanto
taxi cab with registration number AW – 319 -20
driven by 38-year-old Yaw Sarkodie of house
number P23 Pankrono-Kumasi with two other
occupants on board.

A search was conducted in the vehicle and a sponge
was found in the pocket of one of the suspects.



The team became suspicious as that has been the
modus operandi of the car snatchers in the
vicinity who usually tie their victims with either
nylon rope or sponge to strangulate them before
taking the vehicle.

The suspects were arrested and interrogated and
asked to show where they live at Kwapra as they
claimed that was the area they stay.

They later admitted that they came from Sunyani
and hired the taxi cab from Asafo market to Kronum
Kwapra ostensibly to rob the car from the driver.

The suspects confessed that they are behind the
numerous car snatching cases at Kwapra and other
areas

The Suame Divisional taskforce proceeded to Meduma
with the suspects and retrieved four (4) snatched
taxi cabs and upon further interrogation the
suspects informed police that other vehicles were
in Sunyani in the bono region. Police proceeded to
the area and retrieved three (3) more taxis.

Source - MyNewsGh.com

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