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Police in Kumasi have reportedly arrested three suspected armed robbers for various crimes committed in Ashanti Region. They are said to include 21-year old Nicholas Gyapong, a final year student of the Dompoase Senior High School and two other unemployed aged 26 and 32. The Senior Prefect of the school, Daniel Owusu, who is alleged to be leader of the gang, is now at large. According to Bekwai Divisional Police Commander, ASP Ohwiahene Acheampong, the suspects were picked up after carrying out three robbery operations at some mining companies in Kumasi. Reports quote ASP Acheampong as saying that in December last year the gang robbed the Shong Gong Mining Company at Awiankwanta on the Obuasi road. They stole mobile phones, machine accessory and an amount of 94,000 Ghana cedis. He said police upon a tip-off last week arrested the two unemployed suspects from their hide out around Obuasi as investigations led them to pick up a final year student of Dompoase SHS, Nicholas Gyapong from the school. Headmaster of Dompoase Senior High School, Opoku Asamoah, admitted the two were students of the school but was surprised at their conduct.