Chief Superintendent of Police, Stephen Kwesi Kwakye, Tema Community One District Commander, said at least two cars are reported snatched in the area some few weeks back.
Chief Supt. Kwakye said car snatchers would normally ask that they want continue their journey when they reached their destination.
He added that the criminals would keep their composure until they reached a secluded area where they would spray powdered pepper on the face of the victim, push him out of the car and speed out of the Tema area.
According to him, his outfit recently arraigned one Kwame Kontor who together with his accomplice “Condemned” before court.
They came to Tema from Agona Swedru in the Central Region with the intent of snatching a car which they succeeded in doing by hiring a Toyota Yaris Taxi at Sakumono and attacked the driver upon reaching ALUWORKS in the secluded part of the Tema Heavy Industrial Area.
He added that Kontor was remanded into police custody to reappear in court on February 5, while “Condemned’ was being held by the Oda police for his involvement in another car snatching case.
He further disclosed that the syndicate had another strategy where in the course of the journey, they would invite the driver to join them to have a drink at a spot during which they would spike the driver’s drinks with a substance.
The Community One District Commander said two of such cases had been recorded at Tema Community Eight Police Station and therefore cautioned drivers against accepting such offers from passengers as that could cost them their vehicles as well as their health.
