Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria.
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The suspect, it was learnt, was arrested by policemen from Kemta Division of the Ogun State Police Command.
According to a statement by SP Gambo Isah, the command’s spokesman, after a fierce gun duel, the bandit and his cohorts were dislodged while the team succeeded in destroying his camp and recovered 15 cows, 28 goats and 12 sheep reasonably suspected to have been rustled.
In a video, the young lady was seen crying profusely while narrating her experience.
Three other members of the suspected gang have been identified as Tony Onwoluwe (29), Adesoji Oluwafemi (36) and Idoko Michael (33).
The sheriff’s spokesman Stu Miller said Rutledge, who was from Blackfoot in southeastern Idaho, had a concealed weapons permit. She was visiting relatives in the area, he added
This was the focus of the Two-day Experts Roundtable on the Repeal of the Nigerian Firearms Act organized by the Presidential Committee on SALW to examine administrative mechanisms and laws controlling the proliferation of SALW in Nigeria
Police said that the women met in a camping ground near the small town of Voehl in the state of Hessen
Describing the suspects as “inter-state criminals” who indulge in manufacturing of guns as well as servicing foreign ones for hoodlums, the Secretary of the Taskforce, Paul Robertson, said 12 single barrel guns, one double barrel gun, an expended cartridge, iron pole, device suspected to be a fabricator and one hand-saw were recovered from the home of the suspects when searched