Police intercept truckload of Indian hemp in Rivers state

The Rivers State Police Command has intercepted 300 parcels of cannabis sativa, popularly known as India hemp, during an operation in Port Harcourt, shortly after receiving credible information from an informant.

Penpushing reports that the Commissioner of Police, Nwonyi Emeka, made this known at a press conference held on Friday in Port Harcourt, explaining that police operatives attached to the command’s C4i Intelligent Unit, intercepted the bus loaded.

‘The 300 parcels of Indian hemp were intercepted on 28 October after operatives, working with credible information, trailed a white coloured Volkswagen bus with registration number MUS 910 YA’, the commissioner added.

‘Upon sighting the approaching police operatives, the driver took to his heels but was arrested after a hot chase. Shortly after the suspect was apprehended, operatives searched the vehicle and recovered 300 parcels whose content was suspected to be Indian hemp’, he said.

Penpushing further reports that the police boss stated that as at the time of filing this reports the suspect was being interrogated to reveal the source and destination of the illegal product, just as he disclosed that in a related development, police personnel, acting on information, burst a notorious gang of armed robbers responsible for many robberies in the state.

‘On 1 November at about 4 p.m., operatives of the command neutralised a notorious armed robber after they received credible intelligence about the suspicious and clandestine movement of his gang’, Emeka emphasised.

Penpushing also reports that the commissioner of police explained that the gang leader and his gang checked into a hotel located at Chokocho along Etche Road in Etche Local Government Area of the state, while the police operatives immediately swung into action.

The Commissioner said the gang engaged police in a shoot-out, and that in the process, the gang leader who had been at large and, on the command’s, watchlist, and had earlier attacked a victim around Rumuodara community inside the city was gunned down

‘The suspect shot the victim in his left leg which later resulted in the amputation of the victim’s leg as well as snatched the victim’s car valued at N13 million, among others. Items recovered from the gang leader are one AK47 rifle, two magazines, 21 rounds of ammunition of 7.62mm and a police handcuff and the key’, Emeka said.

Penpushing reports that the commissioner confirmed that two male suspects who received the stolen vehicle from the deceased gang leader had been arrested and were providing police interrogators with useful information.

The police boss stated that the police command is already on the trail of other fleeing members of the gang, as at the time of this report, and assured that the suspects would soon be arrested and prosecuted for their alleged crimes.

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