Operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit attached to the Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested two suspects with 125 rounds of live ammunition at the Ovom Waterside, Yenogoa, the state capital.
Spokesman of the state police command, Asinim Butswat, in a statement on Tuesday, gave the names of the suspects as Solomon Ibe, 43 years, and Chris Amuka, 23 years.
Butswat also stated that the suspects were arrested while trying to ferry one bag of weed, suspected to be Indian hemp, to the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.
The police spokesman, who said the suspects were assisting the police in their investigations, also qouted the Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Mike Okoli of urging the public to continue to assist the police with useful information to curtail crime in the state.
