FCT Police Nab Armed Robbers, Fraudsters

FCT Police Nab Armed Robbers, Fraudsters

The FCT Police Command on Tuesday 17th August, 2021 arrested one Ahmed Adamu 25years, Silverkest Prince AKA Poto 23years Musa Ibrahim AKA IBB and Musbahu Ahmed 29years all male, suspected to be armed robbers operating along Mabushi axis of the FCT.

2. The suspects confessed to being members of an armed robbery syndicate who specialise in snatching bags and mobile phones and using the simcards to defraud victims of their money via their bank accounts. They were arrested by eagle-eyed operatives of Mabushi Division who acted on credible information. Effort is in place to arrest fleeing members of the syndicate. Exhibits recovered from the suspects are: (1) Samsung Mobile phone and its simcard which was released to the victim on bond.

3. In another development, Ogoh Sunday ‘m’ 29years was arrested by detectives from Mabushi Division on Thursday 19th August 2021 for being in possession of multiple ATM cards which he confessed were obtained under false pretence from the owners. Further investigations revealed that the suspect used the same ATM Card to defraud POS vendors during POS transactions. Exhibits recovered from him includes eleven(11) different ATM cards belonging to different banks.

4. The suspects will be arraigned in court upon conclusion of investigations.

5. The Command implores residents to report all suspicious movements, emergency or distress, through these numbers: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653 and 08028940883 , also to report the conduct of Police Officers, call the Public Complaint Bureau (PCB) Line : 09022222352

Asp Yusuf Mariam,
Police Public Relations Officer,
For: The Commissioner of Police
FCT Police Command,
Abuja