A 44-year-old notorious armed robber, Olumide Agboola has been arrested by the security operatives attached to Makinde Division, Lagos State.
The suspect was arrested for robbing online vendors.
Agboola was nabbed following a painstaking investigation which was launched after a number of reports were received about his activities. Different CCTV footage at his various crime scenes have aided in the irrefutable identification of the suspect.
The State’s Police Public Relation Officer , SP Benjamin Hudeyin, said that in his last operation, the suspect dispossessed his victim of her Infinix Hot 9 mobile phone, as well as the assorted fabrics, underpants and singlets she came to sell, all valued at N193,000.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect’s modus operandi was to pose as a genuine buyer on social media platforms, order items and request vendors to supply the items at designated hotels, where he would then rob them.
Meanwhile, investigation is still ongoing to recover other stolen items from his previous operations.
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