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Ex-Convict Arrested For Stealing A Car Days After Release

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LUCKY LAWAL

 

An ex-convict, Ayomide Ifabode, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for stealing a Nissan Almera saloon car with registration number AAB 87TF.

The suspect was arrested on the 17th September, 2018, at Ototo village along Kobape Road, Abeokuta, where he took the vehicle to after removing it from where the owner parked it at Ijeuntitun area of the metropolis.

The owner of the vehicle, one Okeowo Ahmed, had earlier reported at Ibara Police Division that his vehicle was stolen from where it was parked by an unknown person. Following the report, the DPO Ibara Division, SP Dada Oluwasegun, detailed his detectives to embark on discreet investigation in order to recover the stolen vehicle and bring the culprit to justice.

Their efforts yielded positive result when the operatives got information that the vehicle was sighted at Ototo community consequent upon which they stormed the place where the suspect was promptly arrested and the car recovered.

On interrogation, the suspect confessed removing the car from where it was parked using a master key. He also confessed just coming out of prison custody where he had served his term after being convicted of a similar crime. Recovered from him apart from the car was the master key.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to FSARS for further investigations and prosecution.

 

 

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