Guns Recovered From Pader Robbers Edison Akugizibwe Reagional Police spokesperson Patrick Okema Police in Pader have today 20th January arrested 3 people who are suspected to be behind the robberies that have for long been taking place in the districts of Pader, Adjuman and neighboring districts. The three were rounded up in a swoop that police made when gun shots rocked a local supermarket where they were carrying out a robbery. Police sprang into action, intercepting and foiling the robbery at the supermarket where a guard had been tied and locked up in a toilet. Patrick Okema the police’s region spokesperson says two guns were recovered, a knife, pliers and iron bars at the crime scene. The riffles were an Ak47 and an SMG. The trio is also suspected to be behind the highway robbery that took place two weeks back, just after Karuma Bridge where thugs attacked traders aboard a Gaga bus to Kampala and robbed millions of shillings from them “This are part of a big group which has been carrying out robberies in the area, we hope they will lead us to getting their accomplices,” said Okema. He said that the increase in crime in the region involving arms may be a result of the porous Uganda-South border, though which wrong doers cross with guns that they use to carry out the robberies. Okema said the three would be charged with aggravated robbery if found guilty.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:59:58 +0000
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