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Police arrest robbery suspect in Civil Defence uniform
By Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta
The Police on Monday arrested a robbery suspect, Adeolu Bankole of Idagba quarter Ayetoro, who dresses in a Civil Defence Corps uniform to rob his victims.
Nemesis caught up with him after he broke into the apartment of some students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ayetoro campus, and robbed them of their phones and laptop at gunpoint.
The students reported the robbery attack to the Police attached to the Ayetoro area Command where detectives trailed and arrested him on Friday.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the arrest of the suspect in a release, said the Area Commander Ayetoro, Anthony Haruna, detailed his detectives to go after him.
Abimbola, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said that following a painstaking investigation, the detectives received information about his hideout of the suspect in an uncompleted building and recovered a bag containing six phones, one laptop, a pair of civil defense uniform and a local pistol.
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According to the Police spokesman, later the detectives mounted surveillance in the area and in the evening, the suspect sneaked into the uncompleted building, moved straight to where the bag was kept and was quickly rounded up.
Two other stolen phones and a wristwatch were also found on him.
The complainants have all identified him as the person that robbed them while further investigation revealed that he stole the pair of Civil defense uniforms from a parked Toyota Camry belonging to an officer of the corps on December 2020 and thereafter set the car ablaze.
The officer has also identified the uniform as his own.
The Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for thorough investigation and prosecution.
