The ‘Times’ said in another story that Police Constable Rockson Kwakye Ampofo, suspected to be leader of a gang of armed robbers operating in some parts of the country, was arrested by the Asokwa Police in Kumasi on Monday.
Ampofo, stationed at the Police Headquarters Workshop Division, Accra, was arrested in the company of 11 of his accomplices including a woman.
The suspects were said to have been using two vehicles, a Totoya Landcrusier and a Ford bus in their operations.
A search on the vehicles revealed a number of masks and mobile phones, a pistol, condoms and other dangerous implements. The police have impounded the vehicles and the items. Superintendent A. Awuni, Head of the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Unit, told newsmen on Tuesday that information reached the police about a band of gangsters harassing passengers plying the lake Bosomtwe-Kumasi road.
Acting upon a tip-off on Monday, the Asokwa police intercepted the two vehicles at about 3 pm and arrested the suspects.
Source: GhanaWeb
