{"id":81739,"date":"2026-01-16T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81739"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:35:07","slug":"police-arrest-teen-driver-with-illicit-drugs-after-injuring-three-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/16\/police-arrest-teen-driver-with-illicit-drugs-after-injuring-three-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Teen Driver With Illicit Drugs After Injuring Three Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The police have arrested a 19-year-old driver, Nsikak Okon, after he allegedly knocked down three police officers during a reckless driving incident in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this on Friday via his official X handle while reacting to a viral video of the suspect\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hundeyin, Okon was driving a heavily tinted vehicle without number plates when he first encountered police officers on the road and sped past them recklessly.<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspect later returned at high speed, narrowly missing an officer, before allegedly driving back again and deliberately knocking down three officers.<\/p>\n<p>Hundeyin added that the suspect was apprehended shortly after the incident, with illicit drugs recovered from him. Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The police have arrested a 19-year-old driver, Nsikak Okon, after he allegedly knocked down three police officers during a reckless driving incident in Edo State. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this on Friday via his official X handle while reacting to a viral video of the suspect\u2019s arrest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81739","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=81739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81741,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81739\/revisions\/81741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}