A soldier and
his civilian accomplice are in the grip of the Accra Regional Police Command
for their alleged involvement in a series of robberies.
Corporal
Jacob Lartey, 32, of the Base Ordnance of the Ghana Armed Forces, and his
civilian accomplice, John Jeremy Quaicoo, 30, a shop attendant, are said to
have posed as officials of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to rob
their victims.
Police
investigations showed that the two usually laid ambush near banks and other
financial institutions where they harassed their victims and took money and
various items from them.
Facts
The Accra
Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police Mr Paul Kontomah, said
the two suspects were arrested on November 29, 2014.
He said on
September 2, 2014, Corporal Lartey laid ambush at the General Post Office, near
the Opera Square in Accra, and monitored the movement of customers who went to
the building to withdraw money.
About 1
p.m., Quaicoo arrived in a taxi and the two met an SHS graduate at the entrance
of the post office and introduced themselves as officials from the BNI.
The two were
said to have told the complainant that he was under arrest for fraud, and that
he would be escorted to the Burma Camp.
“They forced
the complainant to enter the waiting taxi and sped off,” Mr Kontomah said.
Victim
beaten
He said when
the taxi reached the 37 Military Hospital, the two ordered the driver of the
taxi to stop and subjected the victim to severe beating.
The suspects
collected GH¢5,500 and three mobile phones from the victim, after which they
forced him out of the taxi and ordered the taxi driver to drive off.
In another
incident, the two were said to have used the same modus operandi to take
GH¢1,800 from a graphic designer on the Spintex Road.
Mr Kontomah
said the two forced the victim into a black Nissan saloon car belonging to
Corporal Lartey and drove off to Korle Bu where they abandoned the victim.
“Other
victims are reporting similar incidents to the police but they are yet to
identify the suspects,” he added.
Source: Daily Graphic
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