Suspected armed robbers nabbed with guns, live ammunition in Lagos

Three suspected equipped robbers person been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command successful the Alakuko country of the state, with 3 locally made pistols and 8 rounds of unrecorded ammunition recovered from them.

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Adebesi, disclosed this successful a connection issued connected Thursday.

According to the statement, the suspects, identified arsenic Faruk Rasheed, 20, Olamilekan Ademola, 28, and Abidemi Oluwawemo, 21, were arrested pursuing credible quality linking them to alleged transgression activities successful the area.

Police revealed that preliminary investigations showed that the suspects allegedly specialised successful snatching vehicles and robbing unsuspecting members of the nationalist of their valuables.

“The hunt led to the betterment of 2 locally made pistols with 5 cartridges and a locally made revolver containing 3 rounds of 9mm unrecorded ammunition,” constabulary said.

The constabulary added that the betterment brought the full fig of ammunition seized from the suspects to 8 rounds.

“The suspects stay successful constabulary custody arsenic probe continues, portion efforts are ongoing to apprehension different members of the sus...