The Delta State Police Command has arrested in the past three weeks no fewer than sixty-three suspected car snatchers across the state.

According to Ceoafrica, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Zanna Ibrahim who confirmed the arrest of the suspects said that the suspects were arrested on a tip-off by the police at different locations in the state.

Disclosing that reported cases of car snatching, among others, had been on the increase in Asaba and its environs, the Police Boss explained that the police have been strategized by busy places within Asaba and its environs where the car snatchers frequent to ensure that they are brought to book.

His words: “we have done considerably well in combating crimes, arresting suspects, kidnappers since I assumed office in the state commission of police, the sixty-three suspects are currently undergoing interrogations as many of them had confessed to the crime” and warned members of the public, especially Landlords/Ladies against keeping suspicious persons in their houses as tenants.

While soliciting useful information that could lead to the arrest of hoodlums/car snatchers, the police commissioner disclosed it will no longer be business as usual for the hoodlums, adding: “my word for armed robbers, car snatchers, others is to relocate elsewhere not in this state, or face the wrath of the police”.

But investigation revealed that the increasing car snatching menace had remained sources of worries to residents cum visitors to Asaba and its environs who claimed the police have not been doing enough to curb the menace. At the premises of the recently shopping mall (name withheld), over three cars had been reportedly stolen while the owners were having fun inside the hall with their families or friends.

One of such, Mr John Okeh, a businessman who said he took his children to the police for shopping, adding: “we came out I did not see my car again, and I reported to the police, till now, we have not found the car”.

Another person, Mr Julius Osakwe who claimed his car was taken from him at gun point, said: “Four young men at gun point before camp 74 Asaba took my car from me, till not police have not recover it”.

The police boss further confirmed that many of the cars snatched were at gun points, adding that one of the incidents was a school teacher whose car was snatched at gun point around Abraka, Asaba and was recovered by the police when they gave the suspects hot chase and they abandon the car.