Man grabbed for possessing four pistols

Ho, Sept 11, GNA - Eric Adjei, alias Pascal, 24, from Alavanyo-Wudidi in the Volta Region, was on Thursday morning arrested at the Have barrier on the Hohoe-Accra highway with four pistols. Mr David Ampah-Bennin, Volta Regional Police Commander told journalists that the police, acting on a tip-off, posted men to the barrier and waited for the bus Adjei was believed to be travelling on. He said at around 1130 hours the bus arrived at the barrier and the suspect was picked up.

The Police Commander said as described by the informant, Adjei was in jeans with the guns stuck in his pockets, but had concealed the bulging with a smock he was wearing. The Police also picked up one Cosmos Mawusi Owusu, 37 a gunsmith at Adenta-Accra, who Adjei claimed, gave the guns to him. He said Owusu, who is an accredited gunsmith, denied giving the guns to Adjei, but conceded that he knew Adjei and had hosted him overnight before. The police, he said, was investigating the source of the guns, made up of two Italian made pistols, a locally manufactured one and the other from Germany.

Mr Ampah-Bennin also commented on the interception of 41 bags of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp by a joint police-military and CEPS team on the same route on Wednesday dawn. He said the packages of dried leaves were loaded on top of bags of charcoal above the eye view of the security to make detection difficult. Mr Ampah-Bennin said reports indicate that some sachet water distributors could also be stacking contrabands or illegal goods under the bags of water.