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Police nabs senior Prisons official for alleged involvement in armed robbery
The long arm of the law has caught up with a Deputy Superintendent of Prisons in the Nigerian Prisons Service, who was arrested over his alleged involvement in an armed robbery case.
The suspect identified as Mr. Collins Ugwu (a senior prisons officer) was arrested in Enugu by men of the State Police Command alongside his suspected accomplices, Ifeanyi Ozor, a native of Enugu State who is also resident in Abuja; and Smart Osetu from Oguta in Imo State.
In his comments while the suspects were paraded, Mr. Mohammed Danmallam, the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, said aside armed robbery, the suspects were also involved in conspiracy, malicious damage, stealing and ‘obtaining by tricks.’
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The state CP said; “The suspects (Ugwu, Ozor and Osetu) belong to a syndicate that specialises in monitoring anyone that has gone to bank to make withdrawals and trail them to a point where they can smartly force the door or the windscreen (of the victims’ car) open with their instrument and steal the said amount.
“They are also part of a syndicate that buys goods from traders and generate fake payment alert to the owner of the goods without him knowing.
“They were nabbed along Ogui Road, Enugu by the operatives of the Enugu State Police Command on June 26, 2018, following intelligence information gathered concerning their nefarious activities,” the CP added.
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