Car Snatchers Spraying Powdered Pepper on Victims—Tema Police Cautions

The Police in Tema have revealed car snatchers latest modus operandi indicating that they spray powdered pepper on the face of the victim, push them out of the car and speed off.

The syndicate’s other strategies, the police hinted, included inviting the driver to join them for a drink at a spot during which they would lace the driver's drinks with a substance.

The police have asked commercial drivers to be on a wide alert as trends show that car snatching syndicates have intensified their operation within the Tema area.

Chief Superintendent of Police, Stephen Kwesi Kwakye, Tema Community One District Commander, said at least two cars were snatched in the area a few days ago.

Chief Supt. Kwakye noted that the said car snatchers would typically ask that they want to 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 the 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.

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.

–GNA