Police nab serial thief at Teshie

A man has been arrested at Teshie Rasta in Accra in connection with a series of thefts from residences while their occupants are away.

The suspect, Rasid Kabiru Aremeyaw, 33, who evaded the police after allegedly brandishing a crowbar, was later arrested with the support of some carpenters who were working on the roof of a building close by.

Briefing journalists, the Teshie District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent of Police Mr Peter Yembila, said the police had been receiving a lot of reports relating to break-ins around the Teshie Rasta area and had sensitised residents to be “one another’s keeper.”

He said at around 10:00 a.m. on December 20, 2016, the police received calls from some neighbours who suspected Aremeyaw when they saw him break into a walled house belonging to an Indian businessman.

When the police got to the scene, Mr Yembila said they found one person in the house but when they tried to arrest him, the man allegedly pulled a we