Lae Police

​3 arrested for robbing photographer

The camera was worth more than K4000.

The victim was robbed on Tuesday afternoon when he was walking along the 7th St way.

China Town Police conducted foot patrol through the settlement and apprehended the three suspects and recovered the expensive piece of item.

The three are familiar faces who frequent town and bus stop, conducting illegal activities.

Lae Metropolitan Superintendent, Anthony Wagambie Jnr, thanked the China Town Police and the public for their support in apprehending the men.

​2 dead, woman hospitalised after independence celebrations

Lae metropolitan superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jnr says the first murder occurred at the back road of new block while the other death was caused after a drunken brawl at the bowling club carpark, where his body was found in a nearby drain.

The woman was allegedly raped when relatives of the first victim retaliated, kidnapping her and another male, who were later found by police.

Both incidents occurred between 3 to 4am Sunday.

​Lae police set for Independence celebrations

Lae metropolitan superintendent, Anthony Wagambie Junior, says special operations will be conducted throughout the city.

Police will also be at the Sir Ignatius Kilage stadium today as Independence day celebrations will be hosted there.

There will be zero tolerance on intoxicated persons. Police will be on high alert and will not entertain them. Wagambie Jnr says these people will not be allowed to disturb or spoil the celebrations.

​New vehicles for Lae police

The three vehicles have been allocated to the CID Sexual Offences Squad, Juvenile Justice Unit and the traffic section for Road Safety Awareness.

Lae metropolitan superintendent, Anthony Wagambie Jnr, said: “This command had requested to be allocated some but due to administrative hiccups, we only received them last week Friday.

“My management team have allocated the three vehicles to CID Sexual Offences Squad, Juvenile Justice Unit and the Traffic section for Road Safety Awareness and back up to the PMV Squad to curtail untrustworthy vehicles.

Lae police back fight against domestic violence

“I was elected the chairman of the Morobe Family Sexual Violence Action Committee last Wednesday,” says the Lae metropolitan superintendent.

“I take this as an honour to work alongside other stakeholders in this field. The stakeholders comprise of Government, NGOs and faith-based organisations.

“I am honoured to chair this committee and will make use of all the very experienced stakeholders to pave the way forward to fight gender-based violence and child abuse.”

Community hands over escapee to police

He was charged for Arm Robbery with 7 others back in 2013 at Eriku Service Station 2013 and had escaped at Buimo CIS in 2014.

During his absence, he was convicted without his presence by the Lae National Court.

He was also wanted for questioning in relation to a Murder at the back road.

He had been threatening the community when they mobilized, injured and captured him at Ass Mambu back road.

Police were later informed and picked him up, charging him for escaping from lawful custody.

Rongap murder suspect apprehended

This was a combined effort between the Lae police Intelligence Officers and the Sector Response Unit members.

The suspect was apprehended after Police Intel officers gathered information of his whereabouts and location and a raid was later conducted at 4.30am this morning at Ass Mambu back road, Lae.

Detained along with the suspect was a married couple found to be harboring him

They were also taken into custody.

According to Lae police reports, the suspect has been committing crime along the back road area and threatening witnesses to the crime.

VIDEO: Lae Armed Robbery

The suspects had earlier held up a vehicle and its occupants, tying their hands and legs and dumping them at a secluded place at Butibum village. 

Lae's police boss Anthony Wagambie Junior relayed this information to TV Wan News.

 

Meredith Kuusa with more 

Suspects caught after armed robbery today

Prior to the robbery, about eight suspects held up a vehicle and its occupants, tying their hands and legs and dumping them at a secluded spot at Butibum village.

They then went to Eriku where they held up the workers and security guards at 1.10pm.

Lae metropolitan superintendent, Anthony Wagambie Jnr, said: “Takings from the bottle shop was removed as well as the cash register.

“The suspects were armed with two factory made guns, homemade guns and knives.

New trend of robbery puts Lae police on alert

On Thursday at about 9:30am more than 10 men, some dressed in various school uniforms entered the Able computing store with the intention to rob the shop.

The unsuspecting staff and security guards, deceived by the uniforms, didn’t think it was a robbery until the men held them up using guns and machetes.

Within ten minutes, the shop was looted; laptops, mobile phones and other products on display were taken while one of the security guards was slashed badly.