Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Mobile phone thieves arrested

The Nima Police have arrested one Joseph Kwame Tetteh aged 23 for breaking into a mobile phone ware house at Nima and stealing 125 pieces of assorted phones costing millions of cedis.

Three of his accomplices, Nana Yaw Owusu Tawiah 32, Nana Owusu Ansah and Kwaku Kissi 26, all businessmen in Accra have also been picked up by the police. According to Chief Superintendent Angwubutoge Awuni, Divisional Police Commander, Accra Central, on July 8, 2007, complainant in the case visited his mobile phone warehouse and detected that the premises had been burglarized.

On inspection he detected that 125 pieces of assorted mobile phones had been stolen from the warehouse. He lodged a compliant with the Nima Divisional Police Commander who dispatched a team of policemen to investigate.

Chief Supt. Awuni said in the course of investigation, Joseph Kwame Tetteh, a former employee of the complainant was arrested.

Upon interrogation, he admitted entering the premises and stealing the phones. Eighty pieces were given to Nana Yaw Owusu Tawiah, out of which twenty have been retrieved.

Nana Owusu Ansah received 30 pieces for sale but two pieces have been recovered. The third accomplice Kwaku Kissi received 15 pieces of the stolen phones and two have been recovered from him.

The four are on police enquiry bail to appear before court on charges of unlawful entry, stealing and dishonestly receiving

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