The Anambra State Police Command has arrested eight suspects for various offences bordering on kidnapping, cultism, illegal possession of a firearm and armed robbery.
This was disclosed in a press statement by the command’s spokesman SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Friday.
Ikenga said the police recovered a long gun, one locally made Barreta, ammunition, and a suspected stolen vehicle from the suspects.
According to him, the police-led joint security operatives, working on a technology-driven investigation arrested the suspects at various locations across the state.
The statement read, “Anambra police working on a technology-driven investigation arrested two suspects(names withheld) in their criminal hideout in Nnewi.
“The arrest is in a follow-up of the reported case of a kidnapped, but later released victim on August 19, 2024, in Ihiala LGA, The suspects confessed to being active participants in the crime and have already…