{"id":77905,"date":"2019-05-13T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=77905"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:55:07","slug":"3-arrested-for-mec-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/13\/3-arrested-for-mec-break-in\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested for Mec break-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Audrey Kapalamula: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police in Lilongwe have arrested three people for allegedly being involved in the recent break-in at Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) regional offices in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>National Police spokesperson, James Kadadzera, on Saturday said the suspects are a 15-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys.<\/p>\n<p>Kadadzera said the first suspect was arrested on May 9 in Area 9 after being identified through CCTV footage at Mec; a development that led to the arrest of the other two suspects.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAfter interviewing him, he mentioned the other two, who were arrested in Area 24. The suspects are also connected to a series of break-ins in area 15, 18 and Portuguese Club,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said police were interrogating the suspects to place proper charges on them.<\/p>\n<p>The break-in occurred on May 1 2019 and, according to Mec, the people did not get away with noticeable property.<\/p>\n<p>Mec dismissed reports that the burglars stole CCTV cameras, saying they only disengaged cables connected to the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>It also said no critical electoral preparation activities were taking place at the Lilongwe office.<\/p>\n<p>Two police officers and two security guards, who were manning the premises, were taken for questioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula: Police in Lilongwe have arrested three people for allegedly being involved in the recent break-in at Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) regional offices in Lilongwe. National Police spokesperson, James Kadadzera, on Saturday said the suspects are a 15-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys. Kadadzera said the first suspect was arrested on May 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77908,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77905\/revisions\/77908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}