The Imo Shape Police Command has arrested 40-year-old Uchenna Okpara for allegedly stabbing his inlaw, Uchenna Unakalamba, to demise over a dispute involving their youngsters.
The order police spokesperson, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a remark in Owerri on Sunday.
Okpara was once imagined to have stabbed his inlaw to demise on Thursday with a damaged bottle following a dispute involving his youngsters and the ones of Unakalamba in Ubomiri, within the Mbaitoli Native Executive Branch of the order.
In step with Okoye, the operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit arrested Okpara and recovered the weapon.
The remark learn, “The anti-kidnapping arrested a 40-year-old guy, Uchenna Okpara, on January 16, 2025, for allegedly stabbing his in-law, Uchenna Unakalamba, to demise. The incident passed off in Ubomiri, Mbaitoli LGA, following a minor dispute involving their youngsters. Okpara reportedly attacked Unakalamba with a damaged bottle then the argument escalated.
“Responding to a distress call, police operatives apprehended the suspect and recovered the weapon.”
In the meantime, the corpse of Unakalamba has been deposited on the morgue because the police PRO said that the sufferer was once showed lifeless on the clinic, time the suspect remained in custody pending the belief of investigations and next prosecution.
In a similar construction, the Imo Shape Police Command has arrested one Ozioma Dike and dismantled their alleged infamous snatch syndicate in Agwa, Oguta Native Executive Branch.
Okoye stated operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit following credible data, stormed a jungle in Agwa the place they i’m busy in a shootout with the snatch syndicate on Thursday.
He stated, “The operation, which took place in a forest near Agwa, Oguta Local Government Area, led to the arrest of one suspect, Ozioma Dike, after an exchange of gunfire. Other members of the syndicate fled into the bushes.”
The police spokesperson said, “Recovered from the suspect were a pump-action rifle loaded with seven live rounds of ammunition and an iPhone belonging to a victim who had been kidnapped on January 8, 2025, in Ubomiri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area. During interrogation, the suspect confessed to being part of a group responsible for several kidnappings in Ubomiri, Ogbaku, and Ohii communities within Mbaitoli LGA.”
Moreover, he stated efforts have been ongoing to nab the alternative absconding participants of the snatch syndicate, pronouncing, “While Dike remains in custody. He is expected to be arraigned in court after the conclusion of the investigation.”
Okoye confident the folk of the police constancy to remove kidnapping and alternative legal acts throughout the order and preserve leisure and safety.
He disclosed the readiness of the Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, to maintain leisure and battle violent crimes all the way through the order.