Carpenter held over car theft (25/6/09)

A 27-year-old carpenter, Yaw Adu, who together with an accomplice allegedly snatched a Kia taxicab with registration number GC 41060Z from its driver at Kwashieman, has been arrested by the Odorkor police in Accra.
His accomplice, Kinsley Tawiah, is on the run and being sought by the Odorkor police.
The Odorkor Police District Commander, Superintendent Ebenzer Asare, told the Daily Graphic that on June 17, 2009 at about 9:30 p.m. the driver of the taxicab, Kwame Abaw, was on his normal rounds when the two stopped him for his service.
The two, he said, told the driver to take them to Santa Maria in Accra after he had charged them GH¢2.00.
“Upon reaching Blue Kiosk, an area within Santa Maria, the two suspects attacked the driver with a knife and told him to surrender his car to them, which he complied with and afterwards they sped off with the car,” he said.
Supt Asare said the driver then lodged a complaint at the Odorkor Police Station.
On June 18, 2009, he said a police patrol team intercepted the taxicab at Amanase near Suhum, where Yaw Adu was arrested.
The suspect had since been arraigned before court while efforts are still underway to arrest Kinsley Tawiah, his accomplice.