CAR SNATCHER BUSTED

Story: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Axim
Axim District Police Command have arrested one of the cars stealing syndicate operating between Accra and the Western Region with four stolen vehicles from various locations in the Accra at the Mile-32 Barrier in the Axim Municipality.
The suspect, Solomon Kwakyi, 24, alleged that his collaborators are some officials at various offices of Driver and Vehicles Licenses Authority (DVLA) in Accra and other regional offices.
The suspect said after stealing the vehicles, the said officers help him to secure road worthy certificates and duplicates of documents of similar brand of the vehicle he had stolen.
The vehicle is then transported to other parts of the country, sold and the booty shared.
The suspect managed to sell three of the vehicles and he was busted when he was driving to Axim to locate a prospective buyer when the police demanded to see the basic documents covering private vehicle with commercial registration number plate.
Kwakyi then stepped out of the vehicle and run into the bush. The police on duty then gave him a hot chase and managed to arrest him.
Asked why he was running away, he told the police that the vehicle was one of the four he stole from Accra and that he was on his way to sell it at Axim.
He named the vehicles he stole as KIA-Pride with the registration number GR 1007 Y at Achimota, Nissan Premiere registration number GE 7584 V at Kotobabi, Toyota Corolla with a number he could not remember was stolen in front of Papaye Fast Food, Osu in Accra.
The fourth vehicle, a Geo Prism saloon he stole from Accra was yet to be sold to a buyer at Axim when he was arrested.
He told the police that he had realized more than GHc5,000 from the sales of the vehicles and the money deposited in his bank account in Accra.
He continued that after the sale of the Geo Prism that the money would be withdrawn and shared with his alleged collaborators at the offices of the DVLA.
Asked how he operates, Kwakyi told the police that, he is a taxi driver and that all he needs was his ability to open the trunk or any of the doors of the vehicles parked normally on the street.
According to the Axim District Command said, DSP Lovelace Tefutor the suspect said he sold the vehicles between GHc2,000 and GHc2,500 at Agona in the Ahanta West District.
He said Kwakyi was arrested when the police at the check point demanded to know why the commercial registration number plate was fixed on a private vehicle.
Mr Tefutor said the suspect was not able to give any tangible answers, but rather drove to the shoulder of the road, opened the door and run into the bush.
Asked how get the vehicles ignited, DSP Tefutor said suspect said he is a taxi driver and was very conversant with the electrical systems and how to join wires to ignite the vehicle.
The district commander called on public who had their vehicles stolen from Accra central, Osu and Achimota should contact the Axim district or the Western Regional Police commands to help them in their investigations.