Police officers in Anambra State have arrested three young men for stealing a Lexus 330 Sports Utility Vehicle.
The spokesperson for the state police command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said in a press release that the men were intercepted in Awka on Wednesday.
He said: “Operatives of the Special Anti-Cultism Squad, Enugwu Ukwu, while on patrol in the morning of 15th January 2025, intercepted three occupants of a black-coloured Lexus 330 SUV without a plate number at Kwata Junction, Awka.
“During interrogation by the operatives, the suspects, Ifesinachi Okonwko, 22; Chisom Okafor, 20; and Oderah Ebenezer, 20, confessed to having stolen the car at Isuaniocha Village, Awka North.”
He added that the men confessed to being members of the same criminal gang and had been terrorising innocent citizens in Awka.
He called on members of the public searching for a vehicle matching the specifications to come forward for identification and collection of the vehicle.