The spokesperson of the command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who disclosed this in
a statement on Friday, October 18, 2024, said the suspect, Jamilu Ismail, would
approach his victims for help to use their phones to make calls and immediately
the devices were given to him, he flees.
“On 16/10/2024 at about 1640hrs, one Jamilu Ismail 32yrs of Shaku
village, Lapai was arrested by the Police operatives attached to Maje Div. with
three stolen handsets,” the statement read.
"The suspect was arrested under the bridge at Maje, following a
complaint received against him that sometime within the month of July this
year, he approached a victim, requested for help to use the victim's handset to
make a call, and immediately the phone was given to him, he took to his heels
"Fortunately, on the said date, the victim sighted the suspect
along Maje road, raised an alarm and the suspect was intercepted under the
bridge at the Police patrol team point. He was searched and three assorted
phones were recovered from him.
"During interrogation, he confessed that he used the same style to
collect the phones from the owners around Dikko, Maje and Suleja, but he had
sold the one he collected in July in Suleja at the rate of thirty thousand
naira.
“The suspect is under investigation at the Div, as effort is ongoing to
recover other phones he had sold out.”
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