The
police at Dopemu Police Station in Lagos have shot and arrested a
suspected armed robber, Rasheed Aremu, in the early hours of October 10,
2013, Thursday.
The
police recovered a locally made pistol, two cutlasses, a laptop, one
knife, ten handsets and the Mercedes Benz 450ML SUV marked JT195EKY
earlier snatched by the suspect and other fleeing members of the gang
23-year-old
Rasheed Aremu, who originates from Igboora in Oyo State, and his gang
were alleged to have snatched the vehicle around FESTAC area and later
moved to Ejigbo where they also robbed residents of Apata Road by KJ
Block Industry of money, phones and other valuables before heading to
Dopemu.
According
to a police source at Dopemu Police Station, the robbers who were
driving the snatched SUV around Adealu Bus Stop against traffic, opened
fire on the police attached to the Anti-Robbery Squad.
The
source said the police fired back at the robbers and Aremu, the driver
of the SUV was shot in the leg and arrested while others escaped with
bullet wounds.
One
of the victims of the robbery attack at Ejigbo, who identified himself
as Mr. Lawrence Otolape, told P.M.NEWS that he and some of his friends
were at KJ Bus Stop when the robbers arrived and robbed all of them.
“When
I went to report the matter at Okota Police Station, the police called
my line and the police at Dopemu Station picked it and said that one of
the robbers had been arrested and that I should come to their station.
That is why I am here,” Mr. Otolape said.
It
was not possible to reach the Divisional Police Officer in charge of
Dopemu Police station, Mr. Adeyemi G. Emmanuel, a Suprintendent of
Police, as he was out on a mission.
A
senior police source at the station, however, warned criminals in the
area to relocate as the DPO has vowed to make the area very hot for
them.
It
would be recalled that around two weeks ago the police at Dopemu Police
Station in Lagos, Nigeria, smashed a five-man robbery gang at Bashoru
Street in Dopemu area and recovered guns, laptops, phones and jewelry
from the suspects.
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