Police retrieve Marijuana from Cable Thief arrested in Osiam
Kwaku Abu, the suspect of cable thief was having a substance suspected to be marijuana on him which was retrieved by Police.
Joana Somiah 
The Police has retrieved a substance suspected to be Marijuana from a Cable Thief arrested in Akyem Osiam in the Abuakwa North Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
The Osiam Police arrested a copper cable thief who was kept in an uncompleted building for about 5 hours before he was handed over to the police.
The suspect who identified himself as Kwaku Abu was pursued and arrested at about 2:00 am Sunday dawn by residents of the Saviour community carrying quantities of stolen copper cables packed in a sack to an unknown destination.
He however claimed he stole the items from Akyem Apedwa and was going to sell them at Koforidua but did not have money to continue the journey.
He was handcuffed to a metal gate till the following morning when he was handed over to the police.
A plier, torchlight, and dried leaves suspected to be marijuana were retrieved from the Suspects.
Copper cable theft in buildings under construction has become a worrying phenomenon for building owners in most parts of the Eastern region, Ghana.
William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent
