Osun: Police arrest armed robbery syndicate, recover AK-47, ammunition

The Osun State Police Command has arrested 5 suspected members of an equipped robbery syndicate and recovered an AK-47 rifle, 13 rounds of unrecorded ammunition and a single-barrel firearm.

The arrests followed the theft of a recently acquired Lexus Jeep from a nonmigratory of Ada, Osun State, by equipped men connected Monday night.

According to a connection issued connected Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Ojelabi, the unfortunate reported the incidental to the police, prompting the Command’s Anti-Robbery Team to commence a pursuit utilizing the vehicle’s tracking devices.

“The tracking cognition led to the apprehension of 2 suspects, identified arsenic 30-year-old Johnson Friday and 28-year-old Augustine Godwin, astatine a filling presumption successful Ibadan, Oyo State, portion they were refuelling the stolen vehicle,” helium said.

The constabulary said preliminary probe showed that the suspects were allegedly taking the stolen Lexus Jeep to a receiver astatine Idiroko erstwhile they were arrested.

Ojelabi said the suspects’ statemen...