{"id":60020,"date":"2025-01-27T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60020"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:51:46","slug":"police-arrest-two-recover-firearm-ammunition-in-anambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/27\/police-arrest-two-recover-firearm-ammunition-in-anambra\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Two, Recover Firearm, Ammunition in Anambra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Anambra State Police Command has arrested two suspects and recovered a Beretta pistol, two live rounds of ammunition, and a Toyota Corolla during a checkpoint operation on the Umudioka-Awkuzu road near Igbariam.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed that officers from the Special Anti-Cult Squad detained the suspects, Raphael Peverga and Saakura Teryima, both 22, after a routine search on January 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle, with license plate YAB 26 CB, was flagged for inspection at around 5:38 pm, but two other occupants managed to flee. Efforts are ongoing to locate the escapees.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, reiterated the Command&#8217;s commitment to improving security measures to curb criminal activity in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah The Anambra State Police Command has arrested two suspects and recovered a Beretta pistol, two live rounds of ammunition, and a Toyota Corolla during a checkpoint operation on the Umudioka-Awkuzu road near Igbariam. Police spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed that officers from the Special Anti-Cult Squad detained the suspects, Raphael Peverga and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60020","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60022,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60020\/revisions\/60022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}