{"id":7737,"date":"2022-07-20T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:36:12","slug":"suspected-armed-criminals-arrested-in-kapoeta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/suspected-armed-criminals-arrested-in-kapoeta\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected armed criminals arrested in Kapoeta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kapoeta South Mayor. Elia Lokuda \u2013photo Courtesy<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Ijoo Bosco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine suspected armed criminals have been arrested in Kapoeta Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group is believed to be behind the recent spate of break-ins in shops, robberies and nigh attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elia Lokuda, the Mayor of Kapoeta Municipality, said the suspects, seven male and two women were nabbed in a joint operation conducted by a multi-agency force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources confirmed that the suspected criminals were well armed with AK47 guns and 30 rounds of ammunitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lokuda said some stolen items were recovered from the suspects during the crackdown. They include; cooking oil, sugar, utensils and house hold goods. Authorities believe the items could have been stolen from Kapoeta South town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were arrested as they threatened a businessman at gunpoint in Kapoeta town on Sunday night. The robbers were well armed with guns, their gang leader is believed to be a former solder. It seems they were enticed by the urge to make quick money through robberies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lokuda said the suspects were apprehended at the local prison facility to allow investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe gang that has been disturbing us in the market, breaking into shops. Now have evidence collected during the arrest,\u201d Lokuda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mayor said the gang has over the past few months terrorized residents of Kapoeta South and Kapoeta town in night attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the criminals have been using vehicles to escape as well as ferrying the stolen items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey steal large quantities of goods, earlier in the week they took over 40 litters of oil from a businessman before we caught up with them,\u201d Lokuda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further assured residents of the municipality that security patrols will remain intensified to ensure any suspects are arrested to face the full force of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ijoo Bosco Nine suspected armed criminals have been arrested in Kapoeta Municipality. The group is believed to be behind the recent spate of break-ins in shops, robberies and nigh attacks. Elia Lokuda, the Mayor of Kapoeta Municipality, said the suspects, seven male and two women were nabbed in a[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}