Police arrest three Pantang robbery gang members

Page 46: Daily Graphic, September 28, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
THREE members of a robbery gang led by John Kofi Fiagbedzi, alias Spider, have been arrested.
A Toyota RAV4 vehicle, which was snatched from its owner on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 9:20pm at Pantang, was retrieved from them at Ho on Saturday, September 19, 2009.
The three men, Paul Agbodo, 35, alias Amorabi, Vitus Norgbe, 25, both clearing agents at the Aflao border, and Richard Klutse, alias Zuka, a computer technician and a driver to Spider, are currently in custody at the Accra Regional Police headquarters.
Their boss, Fiagbedzi, who is said to be known in Ho and its environs as Bingy and “Two To Haze”, is reported to have escaped from the Police Hospital in 2006, where he was receiving treatment after he was stabbed by some of his victims in a robbery incident.
The police have promised a GH¢4,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Fiagbedzi, who is also known as Leon.
Briefing newsmen in Accra, the Deputy Accra Regional Police Commander, ACP Christian Tetteh Yohuno, said the police had information that Fiagbedzi was at Ho for the Yam festival celebrations.
Based on that, he said, a team was despatched to Ho at about 2 a.m. on Saturday, September 19, 2009, to look for him.
He said based on intelligence the police had, a Toyota RAV4 vehicle with registration number ER 6787 X, was intercepted and its six occupants were arrested.
Although Fiagbedzi was not among those arrested, ACP Yuhono said, Zuka received a call from Vitus that Fiagbedzi had asked him (Vitus) to take the car from him and send it to Ho.
He said unknown to Vitus that Zuka had been arrested, it was arranged that the two (Vitus and Zuka) meet at Dzodze for the handover of the vehicle.
ACP Yohuno said on reaching Dzodze, the police took cover but Vitus spotted the police vehicle parked somewhere and suspected that Zuka had been arrested.
He said the police arrested Vitus after a hot chase, who then mentioned Paul Agbodo as his boss, who had sent him for the car.
He appealed to members of the public to assist the police to arrest Fiagbedzi, who, he said, had shaved off his beard and “looks more gentle now”.