{"id":68491,"date":"2025-06-19T05:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68491"},"modified":"2025-06-19T06:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:33:36","slug":"relief-as-fct-police-arrest-notorious-kidnap-kingpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/19\/relief-as-fct-police-arrest-notorious-kidnap-kingpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief as FCT Police Arrests Notorious Kidnap Kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested a suspected kidnap kingpin linked to several high-profile abductions in Abuja and neighbouring states.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources confirmed the arrest took place on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is reportedly connected to the kidnapping and murder of a pastor, the abduction of a woman for whom a \u20a610 million ransom was paid, and the kidnapping of three children during which their father was killed for resisting the abductors.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested a suspected kidnap kingpin linked to several high-profile abductions in Abuja and neighbouring states. Police sources confirmed the arrest took place on June 17. The suspect is reportedly connected to the kidnapping and murder of a pastor, the abduction of a woman for whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":68488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-68491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68491","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=68491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68498,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68491\/revisions\/68498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}