Three soldiers arrested for extortion

Three soldiers from the Air Force Base in Takoradi have been arrested.

The three officers are; A.C.2 Oliviete Solomon with service No.207333, AC2 Agantwuo Agana with number 207323 and Joseph Osei Abraham numbered 207356 AC2. They were arrested by the Tarkwa divisional police command for alleged extortions.

The three who were on board a taxi cab on Saturday evening went to Aboso, a mining community in the Tarkwa-Nsauem municipality and allegedly combed around gold-buying shops and extorted both cash and gold from unsuspecting dealers.

Members of the Aboso community who were suspicious of the operations of the soldiers raised an alarm, mobilized and arrested them to the Aboso police station and later handed them over to the Tarkwa divisional police headquarters.

Starr News sources say the suspects admitted the offence upon interrogations before their senior officers from the Operation Vanguard taskforce.

A police source revealed to Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene Gyan that the suspects were later handed over to Flying Officer Owusu Williams from the Airforce Base at Takoradi and are currently with the Operation Vanguard in Tarkwa.

Meanwhile, GHC900 and two small ounces of gold were retrieved from them.