The Police in the Eastern Region have arrested a gang of four young men for possessing and discharging firearms and ammunition without permission at Sekesua in Upper Manya Krobo District
The Suspects are; Enoch Donkor aged 22, John Ashiley, 22, Adema Eugene aged 35, and Kwaku Asare, 22.
The suspects alleged to be criminals some wanted by Police for various crimes accompanied one of their members to a funeral at Sekesua community.
During the funeral, the suspects who looked heavily drunk started misbehaving by firing sporadically during the burial service of the sister of their brother resulting in distress calls from mourners to Police but suspects fled in a Toyota Corolla Saloon car with registration number GG 1226-16 when they saw the Police arriving at the service.
At the Otrokper police checkpoint, suspects were signaled to stop but they rather opened fire and fled into a nearby bush abandoning their car. Police returned fire which scratched the neck of one of the suspects.
With the help of some youth of Akatekpor, a neighboring community, Police arrested the four suspects. Suspects will be charged with all the crimes committed.
Mybrytfmonline.com has gathered that two of the suspects were on the police wanted list in Somanya and Nkawkaw for various robbery offenses.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
