{"id":241510,"date":"2026-02-14T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/police-arrest-seven-for-unlawful-possession-firearms-in-abia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:42:29","slug":"police-arrest-seven-for-unlawful-possession-firearms-in-abia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/police-arrest-seven-for-unlawful-possession-firearms-in-abia\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest seven for unlawful possession firearms in Abia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State Police Command says operatives of its Anti-Cultism Unit have apprehended some suspects for unlawful possession of arms.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Police Command, the operation were carried out on 31\/01\/2026 and 11\/02\/2026 during which five locally made pistols, seven cartridges, one toy pistol, two yellow berets of a confraternity and a Maxmech furniture screw machine were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>This development was made known by Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Maureen Chinaka in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement named the suspects as Chima George, Chukwu Emeka Goodluck, Julius Emenike, Chika James, Richard Wisdom, Steven Chinsonso and Chinsonso Tom.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the arrests were made through actionable intelligence, adding that the suspects would be charged to the court after ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abia State Police Command says operatives of its Anti-Cultism Unit have apprehended some suspects for unlawful possession of arms. According to the Police Command, the operation were carried out on 31\/01\/2026 and 11\/02\/2026 during which five locally made pistols, seven cartridges, one toy pistol, two yellow berets of a confraternity and a Maxmech furniture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[176],"tags":[199,578],"class_list":["post-241510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia","tag-abia","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Police.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}