4 armed robbers nabbed in Oyo; 11 tricycles recovered: Police

The police in Oyo State say they’ve apprehended 4 suspected armed robbers and recovered 11 tricycles value N13.2 million.

Adewale Osifeso, spokesman for the police, made this recognized at a information convention on Thursday in Ibadan.

Eight different suspects have been additionally paraded by the police for offences starting from hijacking and diversion of 69 cartons of cigarettes and armed dealing.

Mr Osifeso stated that one of many suspected armed theft syndicates who specialised in snatching tricycles from members of the general public, was arrested on Ogbomoso-Oyo Street because of intelligence based mostly anti-crime patrol of the command.

He stated the suspect, who had been on the needed listing of the command, was intercepted by the command’s monitoring unit on September 26 at about 3:30 p.m. on Ogbomoso-Oyo Street.

“The suspect was queried concerning the possession of 1 tricycle in his possession and was unable to offer any passable rationalization.

“Therefore, the suspect was arrested and upon additional interrogation on the monitoring unit workplace, he voluntarily confessed that the tricycle was snatched from its rightful proprietor at gunpoint on the identical date by himself and his syndicate members.

“He additionally confessed that he was using the tricycle to Ogbomoso City on the time of his apprehension with the intent of handing the identical over to the syndicate’s felony receiver,” Mr Osifeso stated.

He stated that the suspect had confessed to have led his syndicate members to grab a number of tricycles from their house owners at completely different areas throughout Oyo and different neighboring states.

The police spokesman stated that confession of the suspect led to additional discreet investigation which led to the arrest of three of his syndicate members and restoration of 10 different stolen tricycles valued at N13.2 million.

The police additionally paraded 5 suspects over alleged hijacking and diversion of 1,100 cartons of cigarettes belonging to a tobacco firm, whereas three different suspects have been arrested for allegedly dealing in ammunition and possession of 350 reside cartridges.

Mr Osifeso stated the state Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, pledged that the command would proceed to make sure that stringent and extra pre-emptive actions are deployed within the deliberate quest to sort out and produce to the barest minimal all types of crimes within the state. 

(NAN)