The Anambra State Police Command operatives attached to the 3 3 Police Station, in collaboration with Agunechemba Security, Nkwelle-Ezunaka Unit, in the early hours of October 27, 2025, arrested Okonkwo Onyinye, aged 23 years, a female susoect in a reported case of armed robbery and kidnap.
The team also recovered a snatched Toyota Highlander SUV of the victim in Ogidi according to a statement by the state command’s spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga.
He said that preliminary information revealed that the victim was double-crossed by five armed men operating in a Toyota Corolla car at Nkwelle GRA Gate.
The suspects forcefully placed the victim in the boot of his vehicle and drove off to a bush in Umuoji Town, where they dispossessed him of his phone and transferred the sum of ₦24 million from his account before abandoning him and escaping with the vehicle.
Following the report, the Joint Security Team, acting on technologically driven intelligence, traced the movement of the suspects to Nawfia and subsequently to Ogidi, where the armed hoodlums engaged the operatives in sporadic gunfire before fleeing the scene.
Meanwhile, the Toyota Highlander, white in colour with registration number RBC 649 CN, was recovered and the female suspect was later arrested at the scene.
She is currently assisting police detectives with credible information on the other gang members.
