We make N20, 000 daily, says pickpocket

*Police arrest 40 hoodlums

A suspect pickpocket, arrested in Oshodi area of Lagos State, has confessed that he and his cronies used to make between N10,000 to N20,000, every day, stealing from unsuspecting peoples’ pockets.

The suspect, Tajudeen Adeboye, a mechanic, said: In a day, my gang members and I, make at least N10, 000 to N20, 000.  It however depends on what we find inside any bag or purse we snatched. All telephones and other properties we snatched like necklace, wrist watches and others were usually sold at cheap prices to our customers who come to meet us every night.”
According to Adeboye, he was in his village, when his friend, Jelili, invited him to Lagos.
It was when he got to Oshodi that Jelili and his other gangs lured into joining their gang.
The sins of Adeboye found him out after operatives of the Lagos State Task Force arrested 40 miscreants and hoodlums at different hide-outs in Oshodi. Adeboye was one of the hoodlums.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, directed the Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, a Superintendent of Police (SP), Mr. Olayinka Egbeyemi, to lead the operations, where 39 males and one female, were arrested.
Owoseni further directed that all those arrested during the operations be charged to Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Courts, Ogba, Lagos.
Owoseni said the Lagos State Police Command would not relent until criminal activities were reduced across the State.
The Commissioner disclosed that raiding of miscreants and hoodlums at different parts of the state, particularly Oshodi, would be a continuous exercise.