Oda police arrest two members of car-stealing syndicate
The Akyem Oda Divisional Police Command has busted a car-stealing syndicate and arrested two of its members.
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The suspects are Lewis Adomako, 33, a mobile phone seller at Oda, and Kwasi Darko, an Oda-based businessman.
Adomako has been remanded in custody while Darko has been granted bail by the Akyem Swedru Circuit Court presided over by Mr Alexander Oworae. They are to reappear on July 26, 2017.
The police have also mounted a search for another accomplice whose name was given only as Gyata.
Police briefing
Briefing journalists at Oda, the Oda Divisional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) J. Gyamera-Oklu, said for sometime now, Oda had become a place where stolen vehicles were sold.
He said in that regard, the police personnel were sensitised to look out for those involved.
According to ACP Gyamera-Oklu, around 1p.m. on July 9, 2017, the owner of an Accra-based taxi that had been stolen had information that the vehicle was being used to work at Oda so he reported the matter to the Oda police.
He said he tasked his men to search for the stolen Toyota Corolla taxi with registration number GE5036-16 and they found the vehicle together with two others.
The two others were a Toyota Corolla taxi with registration number GR 3456-14 and a Toyota Yaris with the number plate removed, parked in the house of Darko.
ACP Gyamera-Oklu said Darko claimed ownership of the vehicles so he was arrested and the three vehicles impounded by the police.
Investigations
The divisional commander said further investigations by the police revealed that a syndicate of which Adomako was a key figure had been hiring taxis in Accra to parts of the city during the day.
According to him, their modus operandi was that Adomako would tell the taxi driver to pick him up again in the evening and take him to the Kotoka International Airport to pick a friend up to Asamankese.
He said on reaching Asamankese, Adomako would tell the taxi driver to continue to Oda and on reaching the forest reserve after Akyem Akroso, the two men would force the driver out at gunpoint and drive the vehicle away.
It was sold to Darko at Oda who was always ready to buy them.
