Accra Police

THE Accra Regional Police have arrested a suspected armed robber, Alex Ametepe Tetteh who police say has confessed orchestrating five robberies with his accomplices within Accra and the Tema Metropolis.
Ametepe Tetteh who was described as the ring leader of a syndicate was arrested by a Police and Military patrol team at a check point at the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) branch office at James Town in Accra around 12 midnight last Saturday.
The Accra Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Denis Abade who disclosed this to the press said the arrest was made after the patrol team intercepted a Nissan Primera saloon taxi car with registration number GR 389T at a police check point near the CEPS office. He said two of Ametepe’s accomplices who were sitting at the back seat got out and bolted when they were stopped.
He said the taxi car was driven by one Michael Ashelley Coffie, who said the suspect and his accomplices hired him at Agege near Mamprobi to Papaye at Osu.
He said Ametepe upon interrogation confessed masterminding five armed robberies with his accomplices and was on his way to pick one of them at Jokers, La and another at Circle to embark on another operation.
Supt. Abade said he believed that the taxi driver would have been a victim of the syndicate if the patrol team had not apprehended the suspects at the check point and therefore entreated all taxi drivers to be wary of the sort of people they pick when working.
Some of the weapons and ammunitions found on the suspect included a 9 millimetre Lugar pistol which Supt. Abade described as a more sophisticated gun than the ones being used by the police.
The others were three locally manufactured pistols, a knife and seven cartridges of 9 millimetre ammunitions.
In another development on that same day Supt. Abade revealed that one suspected armed robber died during an exchange of fire between a Military Police patrol team and some suspected criminals at Darkuman.
According to him the suspected criminals had attacked a 21 year old man by name Moses Ashiley and bolted with his Geo Prizm saloon car with registration number GW5332Z.
He said the youngman had gone to Darkuman to drop his friend but just as he was about to drive away three armed men in a Nissan taxi car with registration number GW2837S attacked him, with one wielding a pistol and another a machete.
“They ordered him to lie down and collected his mobile phones, $80, GH¢75 and his car keys, leaving the taxi they brought behind”, he stated. He said the youngman immediately made a report to the Kwashieman Police where a patrol team was alerted to look out for the Geo Prizm saloon car.
He said at about 2:30 am the next day, one of the Patrol teams spotted the car at Sukura, a suburb of Accra, and when the occupants also spotted the Police they quickly sped off but the Police pursued them during which the armed robbers opened fire making the Police also return the fire that led to the death of one of the robbers.
He said the others managed to escape but later in the day the Darkuman Police discovered the body of an unidentified male adult with gun shot wounds and deposited the body at the Police Hospital noting that the car was later found with bloodstains in it with bullets riddled through it.
Supt. Abade said, he suspected that some of the suspectedarmed robbers might have also got injured during the exchange of fire and urged the public and hospitals to be vigilant and report anybody with gun shot wounds to the nearest Police Station.