Police Arraign Ikorodu Bank Robbers (Details)

Report reaching us this morning is that

Four people suspected to be members of the armed robbery gang that attacked two banks in Ikorodu area of Lagos State on the 24th of June 2015, have been arrested by the police.

According to Tribune Online, the men of the Nigerian Army who were on a stop and search mission, arrested one of the four suspects in Ondo State while he was trying to escape to Okitipupa while the
Special Anti Robbery Squad of the Lagos State police command arrested three others at different locations in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.


A police source said the army accosted one of the suspects while on his way to his home town in Okitikpupa, Ondo state. During the stop and search, bundles of new N1000 notes with bank wrappers were found in his bag. The suspect was said to have initially denied being part of the gang but claimed to have benefited from the loot at the Lagos banks robberies.

The soldiers who had earlier been alerted on the escaping robbers contacted the Lagos command of the Nigeria Police on the development. The outgoing Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Kayode Aderanti, is said to have facilitated the transfer of the arrested suspects to Lagos for further interrogations.



A police source at SARS, who told Tribune Online of the arrest of the suspects, said that the police authorities had to rely on the experience of former operatives of the unit who have been redeployed.
The police source said:



"We have arrested four of them and we have recovered three exotic vehicles bought with the stolen money from the banks.

When contacted, the image maker in charge of the state police command, Kenneth Nwosu, said:
"I don't know but we are parading suspects tomorrow."


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