Police bust armed robbery, car snatching syndicate in Ogun

The Anti-Robbery Squad of the Ogun State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Eleweran, has apprehended 3 suspects for equipped robbery and conveyance theft crossed Abeokuta and its environs.

The suspects are 38-year-old Ismaila Israel Sokunbi, the suspected kingpin Kayode Adeyemi, aged 37, and Kola Taiwo, 55.

In a connection made disposable to newsmen on Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Oluseyi Babaseyi, noted that the apprehension besides led to the betterment of a stolen Toyota Corolla and respective exhibits linked to transgression activities.

He noted that the archetypal fishy was arrested pursuing a distress study received astatine Obantoko Division wherever equipped suspects attempted to dispossess a nonmigratory of his conveyance portion helium was opening the gross to his residence.

Babaseyi stated that that unfortunate raised an alarm, attracting neighbours to the country and portion trying to flee, the suspects mislaid power of the vehicle, crashed into a obstruction and fled the scene.

“As operatives closed in, the suspects abandoned the conveyance and fled successful a standby vehicle. During their escape, 1 fishy dropped an Infinix mobile telephone and a Wema Bank ATM card, which were recovered arsenic ...