{"id":23719,"date":"2024-03-19T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=23719"},"modified":"2024-03-19T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T10:27:42","slug":"police-arrest-23-year-old-secondary-school-student-with-two-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/19\/police-arrest-23-year-old-secondary-school-student-with-two-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest 23-Year-Old Secondary School Student With Two Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A 23 year-old secondary school leaver, Rukevwe George, has been arrested by operatives of Edo State Police Command for allegedly being in possession of firearms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was arrested at a location in Benin, the state capital.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The suspect who attended Baptist Medical Center Secondary School, Eku, Delta State, was arrested with one automatic foreign-made double barrel gun and one locally-made single-barrel\u00a0 gun.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In an interview with journalists, Rukevwe who was dressed in military camouflage, alleged that the guns belong to his master, Ralph, now on the run.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He however could not explain how he acquired the military uniform.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The State Commissioner of Police,\u00a0 Funsho Adegboye, who paraded him with other suspects, disclosed that there has been a spike in criminality in the state in recent times.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to him, questions were put to Rukevwe, and a search was later carried out and it led to the recovery of the two gums.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cHe accepted that the two guns were given to him by the person who hosted him. Our operatives have been on the trail of the suspect and the l\u1ecd g arms of the law will soon catch up with him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cHe is yet to give satisfactory explanation as to what he does in military camouflage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cBut, we know that this is the kind of people that will disguise and you think he is a military personnel, and he use it to commit some unimaginable crimes under whatever guise,\u201d Adegboye said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Edo CP however assured that the fleeing suspect would soon be arrested and prosecuted with his brother.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23 year-old secondary school leaver, Rukevwe George, has been arrested by operatives of Edo State Police Command for allegedly being in possession of firearms. He was arrested at a location in Benin, the state capital. The suspect who attended Baptist Medical Center Secondary School, Eku, Delta State, was arrested with one automatic foreign-made double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23730,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23719\/revisions\/23730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}