{"id":469244,"date":"2018-03-02T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/taxi-driver-knocks-down-three-armed-robbers-at-osu\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:56:05","slug":"taxi-driver-knocks-down-three-armed-robbers-at-osu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/taxi-driver-knocks-down-three-armed-robbers-at-osu\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver knocks down three armed robbers at Osu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/52780652.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cantonments Taxi Driver\" title=\"Cantonments Taxi Driver\" width=\"295\" height=\"190\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Last year a &#8216;hero&#8217; taxi driver was applauded after he knocked down run-away armed robbers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1520020565_884_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Three armed robbers are in the grips of the Osu police in the Greater Accra region after residents there effected a citizens arrest Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The armed robbers alleged snatched a bag belonging to a foreigner which contained an unspecified amount of money.<\/p>\n<p>A taxi driver was alerted by an alarm raised by eyewitnesses while the suspects made their escape on a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>The driver rammed his vehicle into a motorbike which disoriented the suspects briefly. They took to their heels and residents took them on in a hot chase.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects carried a cutlass but was cut down by the angry residents who arrested him and handed him over to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Two others were later apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests end a working week of rife robbery stories. Daring in their attempts, armed robbers stole an undisclosed amount of cash in a daylight operation Tuesday morning at the North Industrial Area.<\/p>\n<p>Only 24 hours later, a Lebanese cashier was shot dead in his car as an armed gang trailed him after he had withdrawn 200,000 cedis to pay salaries.<\/p>\n<p>A mother was fatally stabbed later in the evening at Obuasi in the Ashanti region.<\/p>\n<p>The crimes have put the police under pressure to demonstrate to the public they are up to the task.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year a &#8216;hero&#8217; taxi driver was applauded after he knocked down run-away armed robbers Three armed robbers are in the grips of the Osu police in the Greater Accra region after residents there effected a citizens arrest Thursday evening. The armed robbers alleged snatched a bag belonging to a foreigner which contained an unspecified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":469245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}