A suspected kidnap kingpin,
Anthony Ogbalor a.k.a,Dracula has died in the Custody of the Delta State Police
Command in Asaba.
Details of the suspected
kidnapper’s death is still sketchy at the time of this report.
It was however, learnt that the
suspected kidnapper may have died under questionable circumstances.
It was also gathered that the
remains of the deceased kidnap suspect has been deposited at an undisclosed
morgue.
Delta State Acting Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka confirmed the death of the Kidnap
suspect but stated that he died in a hospital and not in the Police custody.
DSP Aniamaka explained that the
deceased whom he described as a “kidnapper”, “murderer” and “killer” developed
illness and was rushed to a hospital where he died.
“Dracula died in a hospital where
he was rushed to. He was ill and was rushed to a medical facility where he
died. It is the Police Hospital,” he said.
The late Dracula who hailed from
Iyede in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State was arrested late
December, 2017 alongside other gang members over alleged offence of conspiracy,
armed robbery and kidnapping.
He was arrested at about 7:30 pm
in a snatched navy blue Toyota Corolla car with reg. no EPE 874 DQ, after been
trailed driving along Enerhen road in Warri.
Former Delta State Commissioner
of Police, CP. Zanna Ibrahim who paraded the 57-year-old suspect alongside 30
other suspects, said that he was arrested after another suspect implicated him
in a kidnap case involving one Henry Kessena, Kosin Henry, aka Capon, and
Kenneth Onome, who waylaid and whisked to an unknown detention camp, Pastor
Frank Otomi and Mrs. Mofe Otomi, at Delta Steel Company, DSC, Roundabout,
Warri, in June 23, 2017, while they were driving in a Hyundai SUV.
CP Ibrahim who said that Dracula,
had earlier been arrested and charged to court over murder in a communal crisis
at Isoko area of the state, said the suspect was released by the court under
suspicious circumstances, hence he had complained to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and
Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General of the state over the shocking
release and was waiting to get more information on the development.
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