Tema Police Bust 21yr Old Phone Thief

By Richard Kofi Attenkah
The Tema Regional Police Command has arraigned before the Tema Circuit Court a suspected 22 year-old man criminal, who was arrested at Gbetsile by the Tema Township Night Patrol team last Thursday, around 1:00a.m. Norbert Nyake was charged with stealing, possessing implement intended or adapted for unlawful entry, preparation to commit crime, and causing damage to the windows of his victims.
Briefing the media at her office, the Tema Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Mrs. Beatrice Z. Vib-Sanziri, said the patrol team, on its usual patrols at Gbetsile, chanced on Norbert Nyake around the time mentioned above, and therefore, grew suspicious and subsequently arrested him.
When a search was conducted on the suspect, the police found a Samsung mobile phone, a Blackberry mobile phone, two HTC mobile phones, two iron cutters, and a pair of scissors in a black school bag he was carrying on him.
DCOP Vib-Sanziri stated; “Upon further interrogation, the suspect admitted that he used those implements to gain access into the rooms of his victims, and because he has no job, stealing and robbing are what he does to survive.
“Suspect further took police to the two houses where he stole the four mobile phones at Mataheko, and demonstrated how he used the implements in his possession to gain access into his victims’ rooms.”
In a related development, the Tema police patrol team has arrested a 21 year old taxi driver for possessing implement intended or adapted for unlawful entry, contrary to section 154 of Act 29/60. DCOP Vib-Sanziri told the press that the Tema police patrol team, on its usual patrols around Sebrepor, spotted Emmanuel Nartey in the company of two other persons on board a grey and yellow Nissan Almera taxi cab, with registration number GT 3729 14. She said the police beckoned them to stop, but before they could say Jack, the two other persons took to their heels.
When the police searched the taxi cab, they found a cutlass and an iron cutter concealed in the engine compartment of the taxi, which compelled them to find out why the driver decided to keep the implements in the engine compartment of the taxi cab, instead of the car booth.
DCOP Vib-Sanziri called on taxi owners to check the background of drivers they employ, saying some of these drivers team up with their criminal friends to use their vehicles for criminal activities.