Police arrest armed robbery suspects, recover stolen property, weapons

The Taraba State Police Command has arrested respective suspects linked to equipped robbery, transgression conspiracy, and breach of trust, portion besides recovering stolen property.

The improvement was disclosed successful a connection issued connected Saturday and signed by the Acting Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Victor Mshelizah.

The bid outlined 3 abstracted cases that led to the arrests and recoveries.

In the archetypal incident, a resident, Alhaji Hamishu Abubakar Sambo, reported connected November 16, 2025, that equipped men invaded his residence successful the aboriginal hours of the aforesaid day. The attackers, equipped with cutlasses and sticks, allegedly made distant with a Honda Accord vehicle, mobile phones, a tv set, cash, and different idiosyncratic belongings.

Following investigations by the State Intelligence Department (SID), 4 suspects identified arsenic Aminu Abubakar Abi, 40, Aliyu Salmanu, 29, Aliyu Abubakar, 33, and Daniel Boniface, 22, were arrested.

Police said items recovered from them included 2 cutlasses, 2 torch lights, a 42-inch Samsung television, and a Redmi 13 Pro smartphone.

In different lawsuit involving transgression breach of trust, a tricycle owner, Abubakar Habeeb, according to the police, reported that his conveyance was unlawfully transferred to a 3rd enactment aft helium entrusted it to 1 Shamsudden Muhammad for idiosyncratic use.

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