Lagos State
Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu, who paraded the suspects on Wednesday
said the arrests were made in one month.
Police in
Lagos on Wednesday announced the arrest of about 400 crime suspects, among whom
were 97 robbers, kidnappers, rapists and murderers.
Twenty-eight
persons were arrested for domestic violence and while nine suspects were
arrested for specialising in defrauding people through fake US dollars
peddling.
The suspected
fraudsters, according to the police, were arrested with fetish boxes and
operational vehicles.
Police
recovered six stolen vehicles, 19 assorted firearms with a cache of ammunition,
cutlasses, axes, and other dangerous weapons, including fetish objects from the
suspects.
Odumosu gave
the statistics at the command headquarters in Ikeja while parading some of the
suspects arrested within the period.
The CP
disclosed that a suspected armed robber was killed by operatives, 28 armed
robbery attempts were foiled, six suicide cases recorded and four people
stopped from killing themselves.
He said
operatives intercepted N150 million worth illicit substance including 328 bags
of dry leaves suspected to be Marijuana.
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