POLICE NABBED SIX SUSPECTS (Page 3)

10/07/08

Story: Mary Mensah & Edward Turkson

The Accra Regional Police Command in collaboration with the Kumasi Police has arrested six armed robbers including a woman who were believed to have committed the Madina Ecobank robbery.
The group was paraded together with four other robbers in Accra yesterday but victims of armed robbery attacks failed to identify any of them.
The woman was not paraded alongside the other suspects but was interrogated by the investigation team.
The victims and eyewitnesses at Madina took turns trying to identify the suspects out of the lot but none of them could recognise any of the robbers.
Police sources said they were not deterred by the failure of the victims to identify the robbers and that they would continue with their investigations till the perpetrators were caught.
The six were arrested in Kumasi in another bank robbery attempt and were brought to Accra.
According to the police, the group were all resident in Accra but had been involved in several robberies in Kumasi and Accra.
It would be recalled that the Tuesday, June 24, 2008 issue of this paper carried the story of gunmen numbering about five who struck at the Madina branch of Ecobank in broad daylight the previous day, shot and killed a cop guarding a bullion van and made away with GH¢60,000.
The operation brought activities on the busy streets of Madina to a halt for more than three hours, during which eyewitnesses said the robbers disembarked from a blue-black Toyota Corolla saloon car with no registration number, and took positions on the premises of the bank to wait for the arrival of the bullion van.
When the van arrived, the gunmen proceeded to enact with precision what appeared like a well-rehearsed military operation.