Electronic Tracking Device Gives Up Suspected Robbers

Isaac Donkor, Jerry Danquah and David Asare at

Jerry Danquah, 25, a driver; David Asare, 26, a trader, and Isaac Donkor, alias Kofi Nyankamago, 27, a basket weaver and an accomplice, identified only as Dauda, who is currently on the run, attacked the victim (name withheld) in his house about 2 a.m. on October 4, 2015. The robbers subjected the victim to severe
beatings and tied him with a flying tie and looted his house at New Bortianor, making away with an HP laptop, an Ipad, a Samsung phone, a set of jewellery and GHc600. Mr Yohuno said the suspects demanded the ignition key to the victim’s Toyota Hilux pick-up which was parked in the compound and drove off, after loading the stolen items into it. Luck ran out for the robbers when a vehicle-tracking device installed on the Toyota Hilux led to their arrest, He said with the help of the device, the police managed to intercept the vehicle at the Chopoli Barrier on the Sogakope road within an hour of the robbery. It was suspected they were heading towards Togo to sell the vehicle. Police investigations, he said, revealed that a man identified only as Dauda, the leader of the gang, had used his taxi, with registration number GE 8860-11, for the operation but failed to accompany the other suspects to Sogakope for the sale of the vehicle and the stolen items. The police, Mr Yohuno said, also retrieved all the stolen items and the GHc600.
Meanwhile investigations had also established that the four suspects were the same people who had attacked an accountant in his house at Atta Moses Down, a suburb of Weija, about 1:30 a.m. on September 19, 2015. In that operation, the suspects, who had gained access to the accountant’s house through his kitchen, requested for the ignition keys to his V8 4X4 vehicle. They drove away in the vehicle with the stolen items but on their way they got involved in an accident at Denu.