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The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan, has arrested a robber when the robber and his accomplices were allegedly unloading stolen goods from a van in the bush near the Kotoka International Airport on January 15, 2014. Three accomplices on the run Musah Amadu, a 26-year-old marketing officer, was arrested, while his three accomplices are on the run. The three � Benjamin Chikpa and Alex Osei-Boateng, both offloading boys, and Daniel Akwei, a driver � are workers of Newrest First Catering Limited, an international catering service that supplies food and drinks to airlines at the Kotoka International Airport. Mr Alhassan, who was on a monitoring duty, used a route behind the tarmac at the airport, known as Gate 48, and appeared on the scene where the robbers were undertaking their operation. With the help of some civilians who had laid ambush and were monitoring the movement of the robbers, the IGP managed to arrest one of the suspects. Thievery suspicion The Airport Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Felix Anyidoho, told the Daily Graphic that the suspect was handed over to the Police Patrol Team which took him to the Airport Police Station for further investigations. He said the Manageress of Newrest First Catering Limited, Ms Irene Ayitor-Bright, said the company had been experiencing a series of theft of its foreign drinks and raw materials meant for preparing food for the airlines. Security tightened The management of the company, Mr Anyidoho said, recently tightened its security on suspicion that the missing items were being taken by some workers. According to him, about 5:30 p.m. on January 15, 2014, the company, located on the Spintex Road in Accra, dispatched a truck, with registration number GC 9857-12, with the three suspected accomplices on board to serve an Emirates flight at the airport. He said the driver used the bush road leading to the airport, instead of the Airport Road, due to the criminal intentions he and his accomplices had. Mr Anyidoho said on reaching an area behind the tarmac, the three accomplices conspired to unload some of the assorted drinks onto an unregistered Toyota Camry saloon belonging to Amadu. �They had, at the time they were arrested, succeeded in stealing a carton of Dimes Pineapple drink valued at GH�48,� said the Airport Crime Officer. According to Mr Anyidoho, the driver of the Toyota Camry was the only one who was arrested out of the four suspected thieves, while the other three managed to abandon the truck near the airport and escaped.