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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command person said that the Command’s Tactical Squad has smashed a notorious and vicious equipped robbery and car-snatching pack liable for a bid of convulsive attacks connected conveyance owners.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Abimbola Adebisi, disclosed that it was a large breakthrough successful the ongoing combat against convulsive crimes successful Lagos.
She noted that the suspects specialised successful entering vehicles arsenic passengers and, portion successful transit, dispossessing the owners of their vehicles astatine gunpoint.
“Between 0100hrs connected 15th October 2025 and 0300hrs connected 17th October 2025, intelligence-led operations carried retired by the Command’s Tactical Squads led to the apprehension of 4 (4) unsafe and confessed equipped robbers astatine their hideout successful Igando, Lagos State.
“The suspects arrested are: Taiwo Alabi “m”, 42 years; Ogedengbe Lowis “m”, 46 years; Ighodalo Enato Francis “m”, 37 years; and Osaro Eghe Abiodun “m”, 34 years,” she said.
According to her, during interrogation, the suspects confessed to having dispossessed conveyance owners of their cars astatine gunpoint and making distant with the vehicles. They person besides been linked to respective equipped robbery incidents successful Ogun, Oyo, and Edo States.
Meanwhile, exhibits recovered from the suspects included 1 (1) automatic pump-action shotgun, 1 (1) Beretta pistol, forty-eight (48) rounds of 9mm ammunition, forty-six (46) unrecorded cartridges, 1 (1) cutlass, assorted transgression charms, 1 (1) Toyota Sienna, 2 (2) Lexus ES350 salon cars, and 1 (1) Toyota Corolla salon car.
Similarly, a preliminary probe revealed that the modus operandi of the pack progressive posing arsenic passengers to participate commercialized vehicles and aboriginal robbing unsuspecting backstage drivers of their vehicles astatine gunpoint.
She further said, “One of the vehicles was snatched successful Lagos, portion the others were reportedly robbed successful Ogun, Oyo, and Edo States utilizing the aforesaid modus operandi. All the suspects were meticulously tracked, trailed, and arrested crossed the states mentioned above. The palmy cognition followed weeks of coordinated surveillance and quality gathering connected the suspects.
She added that investigative efforts were being intensified to apprehend different pack members presently astatine large.
The Command reiterated its committedness to dismantling each forms of crime, and transgression syndicates successful the State.
Consequently, the State’s Commissioner of Police, CP Olohundare Jimoh, assured residents that the Command volition proceed to guarantee peace, stability, and intelligence-led policing to escaped the State of criminal elements.
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