Police arrest two suspects in Adamawa over alleged shopbreaking, phone snatching 

Two young men person been arrested successful the Adamawa State capital, Yola, for alleged store breaking and telephone snatching.

The 2 offences are emblematic of young transgression elements known successful Adamawa State arsenic Shila Boys.

The Adamawa State Police Command, which said connected Tuesday that the arrests resulted from an intensified crackdown connected Shilla gangsterism and different transgression activities, explained that operatives attached to the Doubeli Divisional Police Headquarters successful Yola North Local Government Area carried retired the arrests successful abstracted operations.

The command, successful a connection signed by its spokesman, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said that connected June 3, 2026, operatives arrested a 22-year-old suspect, Idris Auwal, a nonmigratory of Doubeli Culvert successful Yola North LGA, successful transportation with a burglary incident.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the fishy conspired with 3 accomplices, presently astatine large, to interruption into a store located astatine Nassarawo Borehole belonging to Abdullahi Sunusi,” Nguroje explained.

He added that the suspects made distant with a container containing currency arsenic good arsenic assorted goods from the store shelves.

According to the constabulary spokesman, successful a abstracted incidental connected June 5, 2026, constabulary operatives apprehended different suspected Shilla pack subordinate accused of attacking and r...