Tommy Baker gang member nabbed, three guns seized

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Tommy Baker gang member nabbed, three guns seized

PORT MORESBY: Police have arrested another Tommy Maeva Baker gangster and seized three guns in a raid in Maiwara Village on Monday (June 21, 2021).

This brings the total number of Baker Gang members arrested or shot dead to 52 since the April 29 attack and burning down of police barracks in Milne Bay’s Alotau.

The news update on the ongoing 60-day manhunt for Tommy Baker and his gangsters were reported by The National:

Police confiscate stolen guns

June 24, 2021The NationalMain Stories

By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK
POLICE have confiscated three guns used by the Tommy Baker’s gang during a clash with police in April, where they also burned down the police barracks at Alotau.
Milne Bay police commander Superintendent Peter Barkie said police also arrested the man who was in possession of the guns when they raided Maiwara village on Monday.
“We raided his village after been tipped off that the wanted criminal (named) and others involved in the gun battle and the burning down of the IPL Barracks were hiding in the village,” he said. Barkie said a Port Moresby-based team in Alotau patrolling the highway was tipped off by a man.
Police went to the village and managed to arrest one gang member. The others fled with their girlfriends. They left behind the three guns and bullets.
Barkie said the guns were used by the gang members in that clash with police between April 29 and 30.
“They burned down the barracks displacing 13 families,” he said.
Meanwhile, Barkie said that Daio villagers handed over a suspected member of Baker’s gang to the police on Tuesday. “He was with criminals at Alia village on June 7 when police raided their camp in the mountains. Police shot and killed the criminals and rescued a 13-year-old girl who was kept as a sex slave at the camp.”
The Daio villagers brought to police one of those who had escaped.

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