Facebook Kidnappers Arrested in Delta State

Kidnappers in Delta State have taken the heinous crime to a sophisticated level by resorting to use of the social network, facebook to deceive unsuspecting users, Daily Sun has learnt.
The gang of kidnappers, it was gathered, invite their victims through facebook to a designated place in Warri area of the state where they are abducted and negotiations for ransom made.
Several persons have already fallen to the antics of the internet kidnappers but nemesis caught up with the gang when they tricked one Oludoyi Samuel of Kogi State University, Ayangba to a fake birthday party in Warri.
The victim was immediately abducted when he arrived Warri and was taken to the hide-out of the hoodlums in Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state where the gang negotiated a ransom of N300,000.00 with the victim’s mother. But the negotiation was yet to yield dividends when the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) attached to the Delta State Police Command acted on a tip-off and swooped in on the hideout to rescue the victim and successfully arrested three of the suspects.
Public Relations Officer of the command, ASP Famous Ajieh confirmed the arrest of the suspects. Ajieh said efforts had been intensified to track down one Michael who was said to have invited the victim to the fake birthday party and advised facebook subscribers to be wary of the kind of friends they interact with on internet.

In other news, an Asaba-based landlord simply identified as Emma has been arrested by the police for allegedly leading a robbery gang.
The 50-year-old property owner was arrested following the confession of his gang members who disclosed that the landlord was their leader who supervises and directs their operations. The said landlord and his gang members allegedly deceived a lady travelling to Onitsha into a bus but diverted to Cable Point in Asaba under the pretext of going to collect particulars.

It was gathered that when they got to Cable Point, they ordered the lady out after robbing her of her money and personal effects and threatened to kill her if she raised alarm.º The victim escaped from the scene and reported the matter to the police who swung into action and arrested the suspects who later confessed that the landlord was their leader. In another development, irate youths in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State yesterday set a building belonging to a suspected kidnap kingpin ablaze.
The suspect who has gone underground was said to have masterminded the kidnap of his neighbour, 71-year-old Regina Obidainty recently. The victim was allegedly shot dead in Edo State after the kidnappers had allegedly collected N2 million ransom from her family. Peeved by the development, the youths were said to have razed the building after hunting for the suspect without success.
But confirming the incident, Public Relations Officer of the Delta State Police Command, ASP Famous Ajieh exonerated youths in the community, saying that the house was razed as a result of fire outbreak. He said nobody at the scene of the fire could confirm whether the house was set ablaze by anybody.
The suspected kidnap kingpin, it was gathered, was recognized by the septuagenarian victim on the day of the kidnap before she was shot dead. Her corpse was said to have been recovered at Igbogiri forest in Edo State. Daily Sun learnt that when the news of the death of the victim who was kidnapped on March 3 filtered in, the youths went wide and set the house of the suspect on fire.

Culled from Sunnewsonline