Police arrest ex-convict for armed robbery two days after release from jail

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Officers from the Edo State Police Command have detained John Agbontean, a former prisoner, on suspicion of robbery.

The suspect was taken into custody in relation to a robbery at the Restoration Gospel Ministry, located at 11 Oviasuyi Street off Ogiemwenke in Benin City, according to a statement made by SP Moses Joel Yamu, the Police Public Relations Officer.

Agbontean was arrested two days after serving a jail sentence for another offence, according to the PPRO.

While trying to rob the church, the suspect was apprehended brandishing a cut-to-size gun.

“Upon interrogation, the suspect confessed to being an ex-convict who gained his freedom from Oko Prison, Benin-City on 19/12/2024.

“He stated that he and his accomplice, one Ola whose surname is unknown now at large, conspired to rob the aforementioned church of the proceeds from the Church’s end-of-year harvest thanksgiving where he was arrested in the process while his accomplice narrowly escaped arrest”, the statement added.

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