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The Central Regional Police Command has arrested Daniel Darkwa, who allegedly shot and killed a certain Franklin Hammond Appiah in his residence at Eyifuah Estate, a suburb of Cape Coast. Darkwa, who has been on the police wanted list for shooting and killing the overseas returnee on September 10, 2012, was arrested together with 11 other suspected armed robbers at Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region. The suspect broke into Franklin�s house, when the latter was watching TV with the family, and shot and killed him instantly. He then stole the deceased�s personal belongings and bolted away. The suspects would soon be arraigned before a Cape Coast Court. Briefing the press on Thursday, the Central Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ransford Moses Ninson, stated that a combined team of Regional Task Force and the Elmina District Police Command conducted a swoop at Dentido, an area noted to be a notorious �wee� base in Elmina, where they were arrested. DCOP Ninson said in the process, six television sets, 12 video players, a pressing iron, a standing fan, a box containing jewels, a ceiling fan, a deep freezer, a rechargeable lamp, an amplifier, two radio sets, two stabilizers, two home theatres and eighty three pieces of compact discs were retrieved from them. He noted that other items retrieved were two large sizes of aluminum sauce pans, 15 plastic chairs, a small size generator, DVD players, a multi-TV decoder, large quantity of local gin mixed with Indian hemp, two mini drums of local gin, two ice chests and quantities of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. The Regional Commander disclosed that four out of the 11 suspects, Gabriel Fiifi Essien, 29, John Kennedy Mbroh, 47, Emmanuel Boateng, 16, and George Sikayena, 16, have so far been connected to the crime of possessing substances suspected to be narcotic drugs. DCOP Ninson hinted that other five of the suspects Georgina Arthur, 25, Kwaku Badu Adu, 34, John Acquah, 30, Aaron Aikens, 16, and Ekow Assumang, 22 are provisionally being held and would be granted police enquiry bail until substantive charges were brought against them after investigations. Two of the suspects Joyce Assifuah, 16, and Emmannuel Amoah, 59, and a baker, who are believed to be victims of circumstances, are on police enquiry bail to daily assist in investigations. He, therefore, appealed to members of the public, whose items had been stolen, to report to the Regional Headquarters and identify them to assist in the prosecution of the suspects.