The suspect,
Deji Ayoola, was arrested by the patrol team of the squad at Ojodu Berger at
the weekend for pick-pocketing a commuter trying to board a commercial vehicle
to the Redemption Camp.
The 28-year
old suspect who was arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad
(RRS) for pick-pocketing proved his mettle by stealing N1,200 again inside the
Police’s office during an interrogation.
He had
successfully perpetrated the crime before the RRS operatives who sighted him
when he was removing the wallet pursued and arrested him.
Speaking with
the victim over the incident, Ayodele Akerele said,
“I collected
a sum of N14,500 from Automated Teller Machine (ATM) from a bank at Berger on
my way to the Redemption Camp. However, I had no inkling that my money had been
removed. It was about the time to pay fare that I discovered my wallet had
disappeared”.
“In fact, I
had even forgotten about the money until the following day, when an operative
from RRS called me that my wallet was recovered from a suspect when they nabbed
him. The Policeman added that they found my mobile number inside my wallet
which made it easy for them to call me.I was shocked to hear this because I had
already lost hope of recovering the money”, he stated.
The suspect
who lived at Mowe area of Ogun State, confessed to the crime and blamed devil
for it.
“I truly
removed the wallet from his (victim) pocket before I was arrested by the
policemen. They bundled me to their office immediately. It was the devil who
pushed me into the act. I pray to God to forgive me”, he pleaded.
It was
gathered that during his interrogation at the RRS’s headquarters in Alausa, the
suspect showed his skill again by stylishly stepping on a N1,200 which fell
from a police woman’s pocket while she was removing her cell phone from her
pocket.
When the
money dropped on the floor, rather than draw her attention to the money, he
pocketed it.
Unknown to
him, another suspect had seen him when he was hiding the money and immediately
alerted the officer that the money she was looking for was with the suspect.
The Lagos
State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Superintendent of Police, SP
Dolapo Badmus, who confirmed the incident, said the crime rate in the state has
drastically reduced.
The suspect
has been transferred to the State Environmental Taskforce for prosecution.
PM News
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