The Delta State Police Command has nabbed two suspects who trail bank customers with large cash withdrawals.
The spokesman of the Command and a Superintendent of Police, SP Bright Edafe, made this known in a video released on his X handle.
Edafe said the suspects, paraded on Tuesday at the Command headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital, specialised in stealing from the bank customers they trail with their vehicle by unlocking their vehicles with a master key.
He said: “We got intelligence that there was this syndicate that went to the bank, waited outside the bank, and targete customers who went into the bank to withdraw large sums of money.
After that, we started gathering our intelligence until we arrested them in Asaba.”
One of the suspects, Osadoduwa Goodluck, said they park their vehicle close to banks and wait for customers who withdraw large sums of money.Goodluck said once the customers stepped out of their vehicles, they would use their master key to open it and steal the money.
On how he was arrested, he said: “I parked in front of Providus Bank along Epama Road.We were inside the car waiting for customers before the police came and rounded us up.We use a master key to open the customer’s car”.
“Maybe, when they park to buy something.We go to any bank along the road and we park close to or opposite the bank. And if the place is not conducive, the other person might just walk close to the bank and stay there”.
“The third person escaped when they arrested us.”
The second suspect, Nnamdi Ariwodo, said the syndicate had been operating for two years and had stolen as much as N250,000 from a single customer.
Ariwodo said: “The highest money we have taken is N250,000. Any car our master key does not open, we move out.We have been in the business for two years.”
