{"id":72624,"date":"2025-08-09T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72624"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:21:18","slug":"police-kill-one-arrest-six-in-abuja-one-chance-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/09\/police-kill-one-arrest-six-in-abuja-one-chance-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Kill One, Arrest Six in Abuja One-Chance Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A suspected member of a notorious \u201cone-chance\u201d gang has been killed, while six others were arrested by operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command during a coordinated operation.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh, in a statement on Saturday, said the gang\u2019s operational vehicle and several stolen items were also recovered.<\/p>\n<p>According to Adeh, the incident unfolded on Wednesday when operatives on routine patrol along the Kubwa Expressway spotted a victim, later identified as Angel Patrick, being pushed out of a moving vehicle. The officers stopped to rescue her and rushed her to Zankwochi Hospital, Mabushi, for urgent treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Another police team, comprising undercover officers, pursued the fleeing suspects to the Aso area of Mararaba, Nasarawa State. A hot chase and fierce gun battle ensued, leading to the arrest of the suspects Daniel Benson, Uche Thomas, and Tope Ola, all from Mpape, and Jude Simon from Mararaba.<\/p>\n<p>Their operational vehicle, a dark grey Toyota Corolla, was recovered. One suspect was fatally shot during the exchange of fire and later confirmed dead at Asokoro General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations revealed that one of the suspects, John Simon, had previously been arrested in December 2024 for the same offence, charged, and remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Recovered exhibits included six ATM cards suspected to belong to past victims, a jackknife, \u20a6115,000 in cash, and other personal effects believed to have been stolen. The suspects confessed to being long-time \u201cone-chance\u201d operators in the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A suspected member of a notorious \u201cone-chance\u201d gang has been killed, while six others were arrested by operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command during a coordinated operation. Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh, in a statement on Saturday, said the gang\u2019s operational vehicle and several stolen items were also recovered. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72624","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72626,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72624\/revisions\/72626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}