{"id":171977,"date":"2025-07-31T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:07:38","slug":"police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Suspected Stolen Goods Dealer in Akwa Ibom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Akwa Ibom State Police Command says it has apprehended one Mr Elijah Etim Nyah, a male resident of Okonna Street, Ikot Ekpene for his suspected involvement in receiving stolen or vandalized properties in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, DSP Timfon John who disclosed this in a release on Thursday said valuable items, suspected to be stolen were recovered from him.<\/p>\n<p>The PPRO said the arrest followed credible information and a confession from a previously apprehended suspect.<\/p>\n<p>She listed the items recovered from his possession to include: assorted cut-to-size PHED electric cables, different sizes of burnt and peeled electric copper wires, and cut-to-size aluminum roofing sheets.<\/p>\n<p>She said investigations are already ongoing and the suspect would be charged to court upon completion.<\/p>\n<p>The elease read in parts, \u201cOn July 28, 2025, the Akwa Ibom State Police Command successfully recovered stolen items and arrested a suspected receiver following an operation based on credible information and a confession from a previously apprehended suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt approximately 3:45 PM of July 28, 2025, the Police raided a black spot located at No. 56 Aba Road, Ikot Ekpene. The operation led to the recovery of several items, including electric wires and an iron protector, all suspected to be stolen. These items are believed to be part of property vandalized and stolen from an abandoned Chambers of Commerce building located on Etokebe Street, Ikot Ekpene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther investigation extended to a shop and premises also on Aba Road, Ikot Ekpene. There, Mr. Elijah Etim Nyah, a male resident of Okonna Street, Ikot Ekpene, was arrested as a suspected receiver of the vandalized and stolen goods. Recovered from his possession were assorted cut-to-size PHED electric cables, different sizes of burnt and peeled electric copper wires, and cut-to-size aluminum roofing sheets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Akwa Ibom State Police Command says it has apprehended one Mr Elijah Etim Nyah, a male resident of Okonna Street, Ikot Ekpene for his suspected involvement in receiving stolen or vandalized properties in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, DSP Timfon John who disclosed this in a release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[371,254,165],"class_list":["post-171977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Arrest Suspected Stolen Goods Dealer in Akwa Ibom - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Akwa Ibom State Police Command says it has apprehended one Mr Elijah Etim Nyah, a male resident of Okonna Street, Ikot E ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Arrest Suspected Stolen Goods Dealer in Akwa Ibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Akwa Ibom State Police Command says it has apprehended one Mr Elijah Etim Nyah, a male resident of Okonna Street, Ikot E ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T16:32:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T18:07:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753972180.541492.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"813\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police Arrest Suspected Stolen Goods Dealer in Akwa Ibom\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-31T16:32:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-31T18:07:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753972180.541492.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akwa Ibom\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-arrest-suspected-stolen-goods-dealer-in-akwa-ibom\",\"name\":\"Police Arrest Suspected Stolen Goods Dealer in Akwa Ibom - 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