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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nWhen\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0arrived at the scene, the youth of the area had beaten the young man and tied him to the very pole he had climbed to cut off the wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even though the suspect gave his name as Acheampong Emmanuel, a police patrol team which came around quickly identified him and called him by his real name, Theophilus, before taking him away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Benjamin Appiah, the Assemblyman for the Old Estate West electoral area, spoke to Citi News<\/strong> about the recent activities of criminals in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur main issue is the stealing of items in our community. It has been going on often, and when we catch them, we turn them into the police. We are trying to protect the community. This morning I was called that another thief had been caught and beaten, and was tied to a tree. We came and rescued him, so I called the police to assist me. This is about the 4th or 5th time a thief has come here to steal. We have about three or four girls here who have been wounded with knives by thieves after snatching their phones. I don\u2019t like it when thieves are caught by residents and beaten,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, some residents of the area who have been sharing some horrifying experiences with criminals have called on the Ghana Police Service to intensify their patrols day and night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are appealing to the police to intensify patrols here,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Citi News can also confirm that two suspects who were arrested last week Friday by the Nyamekrom Community watchdog committee after breaking into a home in the area are at the intensive care unit of the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua receiving treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n The two suspects, who are part of a group of criminals operating with a motorcycle and terrorizing residents in the area, were arrested by the community watchdog committee who had laid an ambush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Assemblyman for Nyamekrom Electoral area, Nana Boaheng Enoch, who told\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that he has been targeted by the criminals, says the watchdog group will stop at nothing to get rid of criminals in their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Citi Newsroom<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A former Community Policing Assistant (CPA) who was stationed at the Koforidua Central Police Station<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D.jpg",1080,596,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-300x166.jpg",300,166,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-768x424.jpg",640,353,true],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-1024x565.jpg",640,353,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D.jpg",1080,596,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D.jpg",1080,596,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-640x353.jpg",640,353,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-1024x565.jpg",1024,565,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Babia Mubaric"]},"category_info":"General News<\/a>","tag_info":"General News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-1024x576.jpg\")
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