Three suspects, Isaiah Adegbenro, Edet Johnson, and Efe Sowemimo, have landed in police net for allegedly stealing phones worth N2 million at a road accident scene.
According to the Lagos State Police Command the suspects were arrested following their attempt to steal the mobile phones of some road accident victim in Lagos.
The Command maintained that trio were arrested in the Ikeja area of the State.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Rapid Response Squad of the Command and shared on its Facebook page.
The statement noted that the three suspects were arrested on Wednesday by an RRS team on a routine patrol. They were arrested while ransacking a vehicle involved in an accident.
The statement read, “Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, (Wednesday) night arrested three suspected thieves for stealing two phones from accident victims on Governor’s Road, Alausa, Ikeja.
“The suspects: Isaiah Adegbenro (38), Edet Johnson (30) and Efe Sowemimo (28), were arrested a few metres away from the accident point while trying to escape with the phones.”
The statement added that the driver of the accident vehicle had ran into a road divider after losing control. And rather than the suspects assisting the victims, they resorted to stealing their mobile phones. Which included two iPhones valued at N1,920,000.
“The accident victims were heading towards Ikeja in a red Toyota Camry 2010. Their driver, however, lost control of the vehicle. As he rammed the car into a road divider in front of Adeyemi Bero end of Governor Road, Alausa, Ikeja.
“The three suspects who were close to the scene when the accident happened, rather than assist the driver and the occupants out of the badly damaged vehicle, were ransacking the victims’ pockets and vehicle. Stolen from the accident victims were an iPhone 15, valued at N1,300,000:00 and an iPhone 12 worth N620,000:00.
“The RRS operatives who were patrolling the area, when alerted about the actions of the fleeing suspects, pursued them. On arresting them, two iPhones were recovered from their pockets.”
According to the report, upon the suspects’ arrest, they were said to have confessed to the crime. Which prompted the RRS commander, Shola Jejeloye, to order immediate commencement of their trial.
It added that “The operatives assisted the victims to the hospital and also removed the vehicle from obstruction.
“The suspects have made significant confessions. They are to be charged to court today in line with the directives of Commander, Rapid Response Squad, CSP Shola Jejeloye,” the statement concluded.
source: PUNCH
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