THREE ROBBERS IN POLICE GRIPS

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Three persons are in the grips of the police in Kumasi for their alleged involvement in robbing unsuspecting passengers in taxis of their monies and personal effects.

 They are, Akwesi Frimpong alias Alhasan, 33 years old and an ex-convict in similar crime, Issac Boateng, alias Okey, a 25 year old taxi driver and Frank Osei, alias Obese, a 25 year old table top provision seller. 

Akwesi Frimpong was arrested in 2012 by the Ashanti Regional CID for a similar crime in Kumasi and was jailed seven months in hard labour. 

Briefing journalists in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Nathan Kofi Boakye said on the 28th of last month, the Suntreso Police Patrol team had information that three young men, noted for using taxi cabs to pick and rob passengers, had picked a passenger and were heading towards the Ahodwo roundabout.

 The Patrol Team, upon the information pursued the said vehicle and signaled the driver to stop, but he rather accelerated to escape from the police.

 DCOP Boakye said the driver’s action aroused the suspicion of the police, who then gave the driver a chase. 

The suspects later abandoned the vehicle and attempted to absconded, leaving their victim in the vehicle. 

The police however apprehended them and an immediate search on them revealed a mobile phone hidden in the pocket of Akwesi Frimpong. 

The passenger who was on board the taxi later identified the phone as his that was stolen from his bag.

 DCOP Boakye said during investigations, it was found that the three suspects in recent times have been using a taxi cab to pick unsuspecting passengers in the metropolis and in the course of the journey, rob them and pull them out of the vehicle.

 He said all three suspects admitted to the crime and confessed that they have been into the “pick and rob” operations for seven months now and that women especially were their targets. 

DCOP said they further admitted that they normally pick their victims from obscure places and usually pull them out of the vehicle at places that people will not easily suspect them after they succeeded in robbing their victims.

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