Police nab gang member

Page 31: Daily Graphic, July 7, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THE Tesano District Police have arrested a member of a three-man gang that had been terrorising motorists and pedestrians in and around Abeka Lapaz and robbing them of their personal effects.
Ebenezer Agyapong was arrested after he and two others attacked a ‘trotro’ driver and robbed him of his mobile phone.
The two others — identified only as Eric, alias Shamo, and Tawiah, alias Empire — are currently at large.
The Tesano District Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Theodore Hlormenu, told the Daily Graphic that at about 3 a.m. on June 23, 2009, the driver, Mr Kwabena Annor, was waiting at the Apostolic Church Junction at Lapaz for his mate.
He said Agyapong emerged with Eric and Tawiah from the dark wielding machetes and cudgels.
According to him, they attacked the driver and demanded money and his mobile phone from him.
ASP Hlormenu said the driver, however, told Agyapong and his accomplices that he was yet to start work and did not have any money on him.
Based on that, he said, the suspects took away the driver’s mobile phone and left.
He said the Tesano Police launched investigations into the incident as soon as the driver made a report to them.
ASP Hlormenu said it was in the course of the investigations that Agyapong was arrested the same day.