On the 26 April 2016, military officials in Djoum arrested the accused persons in possession of 36 elephant ivories. The accused TAKAMTCHOANG confessed that a certain Armand gave him the ivories and he approached the ATANGANA, an Ecoguard to help him convey the ivories to Yaoundé using his vehicle. Atangana corroborated his story and in this light had his mission order signed. When they were intercepted, they pleaded profusely for the military officials not to search the vehicle but they went on and discovered elephant ivories hidden in a box. BASSINGHA Simon said ATANGANA his boss asked him to accompany him on a mission to escort ivories and guessed it was a regular work mission. SAIDOU, a custom official in Ntam claimed he was headed to Yaoundé for other reasons and since the co-offender TAKAMTCHOANG was going with his vehicle he solicited a spot. At the close of interrogations and after drafting their offence statements, they were all forwarded before the State Attorney of the Court of First Instance Djoum for prosecution.