Crime
Teenage kidnap ring loses N500,000, as victim escapes
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command has arrested two teenagers aged 18 and 13, who kidnapped an eight-year-old at Erue, Uromi.
The command’s PRO Kontongs Bello disclosed this in a statement on Friday, adding the victim was rescued by a good Samaritan Dec. 28.
“At about 1300hrs one Testimony Akioyame ‘F’ (8) of Arue Uromi in Esan North-East was brought to Uromi Police Divisional Headquarters by a good Samaritan, he informed the police that he found her tied down in an uncompleted building at Erue community of Uromi,” Bello stated.
“On receipt of the girl and the information, the police operative immediately swung into action and arrested the duo of Godstime Obioko ‘M’ (18) and Destiny Osevaru ‘M’ (13) of Erue community in Esan North-East Local Government Area”
The two suspects confessed “to have abducted the girl, tied and kept her in an uncompleted building while they left her there to charge their phone to contact her parents”.
On coming back, they discovered that the girl has been rescued by an unknown person.
The suspects confessed that they intended to demand Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000.00) from the parents before she was eventually rescued.
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