Techiman: 40-Year-Old Man Arrested For Possessing AK-47 Rifle

The Police in Techiman Municipality of the Bono East Region has arrested a 40-year-old man, Martin Agyei for possessing an AK 47 assault rifle loaded with 52 rounds of ammunition.

According to the Police who confirmed the incident to an online portal, Martin Agyei was arrested while they were on a snap check duty at Kodie in his attempt to enter the Ashanti Region with the weapons on suspicion of using them to engage in armed robbery

The suspect who was driving a Daewoo Matiz with registration number AS 880-16 to Kumasi was thoroughly searched.

it was in the process that the discovered the items found in his car which included one AK 47 assault rifle No. 74369511, two magazines loaded with 26 ammunition each, one butcher knife, one locally manufactured pistol, three mobile phones, two pullovers, a pair of white glove, one power bank, two pairs of sandals, cash of GHC 1050.00, two Chinese Yuan and one US dollar.

Martin Adjei has since been detained and his car impounded by the Ghana Police Service to help the Police in its investigation.