Lae Police

Weapons recovered from suspects home in Lae

Lae Metropolitan Police Commander Anthony Wagambie tells PNG Loop that the suspect was apprehended for breaching his bail condition by not appearing in court for the decision of his court case.

 Wagambie says that he had a warrant of arrest issued by the Lae District court. He was also wanted with regards to other serious crimes.

 Police discovered two factory made pistols. One a .38 revolver and the other a 9mm semi- automatic glock.

Investigators found that the glock was stolen from its licensed holder during an armed robbery at a major business house in Lae.

Lae Police recapture 25 Buimo escapees

Currently 25 escapees have been arrested and charged and returned to Buimo.

Two were killed during a dispute at Busu compound at the Backroad Malahang while one escapee who was critically shot is still at Angau hospital.

The wounded escapee was in the process of robbing vehicles when he was intercepted by a special operations unit.

Lae Metropolitan Police Commander Anthony Wagambie junior says that all personnel have been utilised to do follow ups on outstanding cases.

Lae police command gets organised

Lae Metropolitan Police Commander Anthony Wagambie says the new arrangements will be to also better coordinate and organise to deal with law and order issues.

He says in recent months since taking office the Mobile units in Lae are more coordinated operationally and are also taking part more actively in policing duties.

While the Task Force unit has been given additional manpower amalgamating the armed reserve unit under one commander with the foot beat units forming the response team for the units.

Suspects in Seeto Kui robbery apprehended

On Tuesday (March 22nd) five suspects armed with guns and bushknives entered the hypermart and  made off with K26, 451.02 in cash.

The men managed to get away in a dark blue 10-seater and drove to the sea front where they got away on a waiting boat.

However, police received a tip off and picked up a suspect, believed to be an insider, from his residence.

Later that day police on a tip-off picked up eight men who were under the influence of liquor at Three-Mile.

The main suspect Wagambie Jnr says was buying beer for the group.

Buimo escapee shot in the buttock

The escapee identified as Brendon Kinjik was caught by police while attempting to hold up a vehicle along the back road of Malahang in Lae.

Kinjik was armed with a homemade gun and several rounds of 9 mm bullets.

Lae Metropolitan Police Commander Anthony Wagambie Jnr informed PNG Loop that Kinjik was shot in his buttock area by police while attempting to escape.

Wagambie Jnr  says that he has been wanted by police for a string of robberies along the back road area since his escape from Buimo.

K85,000 taken in Lae robbery

Police reported that the suspects walked into the main entrance of the administration building at around 9am on Thursday (March 24th).

The suspects had on them both factory and homemade guns.

Lae Metropolitan Commander Anthony Wagambie Jnr says that the suspects assaulted a female staff who refused to cooperate with them and then made off with K85,000 in cash as well as  three laptops.

Whilst police were alerted they could not catch up with the suspects as they made their way to the beach front and took off on a waiting speed boat.

Wagambie unhappy with media

The case, which took place on October 16th last year, involved a drunk driver that ran his car off the road and killed four girls.

Anthony Wagambie Jnr in a statement wanted to clarify reports that the police did not give in the hand up brief (HUB) to the public prosecutors.

He also wanted to state that the defendant in the case was not acquitted rather, the matter was struck out, meaning that the case is still open.

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One Kokoda attack accused a juvenile

One of the two accused who were arrested and charged for the Kokoda Track attack of two tourists on Jan 11 will have his case handled by the Juvenile court in Port Moresby.

http://www.looppng.com/content/one-kokoda-attack-accused-juvenile

Continuous rain wrecks Bena Bridge in EHP

Lae police intercept armed gang

The suspects were armed and travelling along the Cassowary Road when they were intercepted by a Rural CID Unit.

Lae Metropolitan Police Commander says that the unit tried to stop the Dark Blue Land Cruiser the  men were in but they sped into Admin Compound.

One of the man sitting off-side the driver came out of the car but managed to escape by swimming across the Bumbu river.

The other six suspect were shot by police after as they tried to escape on foot.

Lae police looking for child molester turned murderer

The matter which was only just reported to police in mid-January has received a lot of public feedback since PNG Loop broke the story.

Many readers called on parents to be more mindful of the type of people they expose their children too.

The victim aged 1 year 7 month died as a result of the injuries sustained during the ordeal that lasted from October 2015 to January 14th this year.