Police arrest teenager for robbing motorists, recover weapons

Segun Ogunbo

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State Command, have arrested a 19-year-old, who allegedly specialized in robbing motorists in traffic.

The suspect, Adewumi Sodiq, was arrested along Oshodi, Mushin road, Lagos State on 19^th of January.

Allegedly recovered from the suspect is one cut to size locally made pistol, with three live cartridges. The police also claimed that the suspect was arrested right inside the car of a victim he was attempting to rob.

According to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, the arrest was made after the command received a tip-off about the suspect’s activities.

His words: “The Command received information that some armed robbers were sighted inside a Volkswagen Golf Saloon Car, painted Lagos State commercial colour. Our men quickly raced to the scene. The hoodlums, on sighting the operatives, quickly jumped down and took to their heels, leaving one of their members behind. The suspect was arrested and during investigation, he was to his house for a search. Police discovered another cut to size locally made single barrel gun with three live cartridges. This brings the total number of locally made guns recovered from him to two, while recovered cartridges are four.

Imohimi disclosed that the suspect during interrogation allegedly confessed that he was a member of a gang of robber that had been terrorising Mushin and its environs.

Imohimi said that the command also arrested five suspects for allegedly burgling a rice ship, located along Imota Agbowa Road, Ikorodu Lagos on the 15^th of December 2018.

“The armed men were operating with a white colour Mazda Bus. When the suspects sighted a combined team of SARS operatives and policemen from Igbogbo Police Station, the hoodlums immediately opened fire, forcing our policemen to respond,” said Imohimi.

The suspects were said to have fled because they couldn’t face the superior gun battle from the police. One of the suspects, Yusuf Nasiru, was arrested.

The CP disclosed that Nasiru surrendered to the police. He added that a locally made double barrel gun and six live cartridges were recovered from him.

The suspect was used as bait to catch other fleeing members of the gang identified as Adeneye Ayomide Alias a.k.a ‘Dublin’ (39), who is the leader of the hoodlums, Tope Faleye a.k.a ‘Eniba’ (25), Dare Rasaq (28) and Oshibajo Gbenga (21). The Mazda bus, marked KRD-783-XW, was recovered from them.