They are being grilled for dispossessing the inhabitants of Douala of the valuables.
Eight suspected criminals who were picked up February 24, 2015, from various quarters in Douala are being interrogated at the Judicial Police headquarters. Security forces yesterday began charging them with arm possession, aggravated theft, and forgery.
The grilling follows exhibits of weapons and identified booties from three of the eight hardened, muscular alleged criminals said to constitute a notorious gang that reportedly wreaked several structures and private individuals in metropolitan Douala.
The operation to arrest the suspects took place in the early hours at Nkolmbong, New Bell, Akwa, Ndokoti, “Village” and Ndogbong. They had with them two automatic pistols and three vehicles purportedly stolen or hijacked. Ring leader Abah Aboubakar, who bears two aliases, “Aminou” and “Cerveau”, mustered his cohort Tamboura S., Abdal R. O., Markus D., Mamadou A.G., S. Abah, James S., and Aime Magloire, to produce fake car registration certificates were immediately whisked by the police and placed in custody in Bonanjo, from where they are being interrogated.
The story goes that on the night of Saturday breaking Sunday February 22, three armed bandits attacked a certain Joseph T. T. in Ndogbong and carted away with his Toyota Auris car, the sum of FCFA 100,000, and three mobile phones.
The victim deposited a complaint at the 1st District Public Security Police Station in Bonanjo. Following a tipoff, a 15-man security team, made up of elements of the1st District Public Security Police Station and those of the Judicial Police deployed to Nkolmbong at the Nyalla quarter, nabbed Tamboura of Malian nationality, night watch of a garage. Found in the garage was the Toyota Auris belonging to the victim. Two other luxurious Toyota cars of doubtful origins were also seized.
Further investigations led to the arrest of gang leader, Abah, at his hideout at Nkolmbong where two automatic pistols, three daggers, electronic appliances, one of the mobile phones of the victim and amulets were found. His preliminary investigation permitted the policemen to dismantle the entire gang specialised in the theft of cosy cars were found. The gangsters declared that they conveyed the stolen cars to their boss in Ngaoundere.
