Saturday, February 17, 2007

Illicit Tapers take on Police in Firestone





Despite regular patrol by members of the Liberian National Police on the Plantation of Firestone in Margibi County, illicit tapers have again commence their devilish act by taken the lives of innocent people on the Plantation.
A group of illicit tapers at Division Thirty-One in Firestone early Friday morning shot and wounded two personnel of the Liberia National Police and the company’s Plant Protection Department.

The illicit tapers according to report fired at patrolmen Stephen Williams and James Jallah when the two men attempted to stop them from loading stolen latex.
Speaking to reporters Friday, the Commander at the RIA Police Detachment, Susanah Blackie said three persons have been arrested with a single barrel gun.

For the past months the plantation has been a battle ground between security of the company and illicit tapers who are constantly taken away the company's latex.

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