Robbers desert arms, booty in Delta

Detectives attached to Enerhen Police Division on Sunday swooped on an armed robbery gang terrorising the Water Resources Area in Enerhen axis of Delta State.
Although the hoodlums escaped arrest when men of the Surveillance Patrol Team stormed their hideout and gave them a hot chase, their weapons and other ill-gotten gains were however recovered.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the robbery at the command headquarters in Asaba, said the gang fled on seeing the police team.
Kalu said: “On sighting the police, the hoodlums zoomed off and they were given a hot chase but fled into a thick swampy area. They thereafter abandoned their Golf 3 Volkswagen car with Registration number DELTA AG 95 BKW.
“When the said Golf car was searched, one locally made cut to size double barrel gun, 10 live cartridges, one expended cartridge, one Tecno handset, six screw drivers and the sum of N450,000, which the criminals earlier snatched at gunpoint from one Agbarah Benawariebi, were recovered.”
Kalu said the victim had narrated how on the fateful day at about 9am he withdrew the stolen money from the First Bank branch at Airport Junction, Enerhen, only for him to be robbed of the money by the hoodlums at the Water Resources Area.
She said efforts have been intensified to track down the fleeing criminals.