{"id":386903,"date":"2021-08-23T20:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=386903"},"modified":"2021-08-23T20:19:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:19:56","slug":"police-arrest-suspected-armed-robber-recover-pistol-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=386903","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspected armed robber, recover pistol, ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Bayelsa State Police Command, Azikoro Division, has arrested a suspected armed robber and recovered a locally-made pistol with three 9mm ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that the successful arrest was carried out in collaboration with youth leaders and vigilantes from Akaba community, in Yenagoa, the state\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued to DAILY POST on Monday, through the state\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Asinim Butswat, noted that \u201cOn 23rd August 2021, while on patrol at Akaba community at about 0230 hours, Police operatives arrested the suspect one Merit Salvation \u2018m\u2019 23 years, in possession of a locally made pistol and three .9mm ammunition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is cooperating with the Police in its investigation, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng E. Echeng, advised residents to always volunteer useful information that will assist the police in fishing out criminals in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bayelsa State Police Command, Azikoro Division, has arrested a suspected armed robber and recovered a locally-made pistol with three 9mm ammunition. DAILY POST gathered that the successful arrest was carried out in collaboration with youth leaders and vigilantes from Akaba community, in Yenagoa, the state\u2019s capital. A statement issued to DAILY POST on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,10428,1154,61],"class_list":["post-386903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-arm-robbers","tag-bayelsa","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/386904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}