A syndicate which specialises in trailing and robbing customers of banks of huge sums of money especially in Asaba, the Delta State capital has been arrested.
The syndicate was arrested on Thursday, May 4, 2023, in Asaba by operatives of the Delta State Police Command.
The arrest followed “series of complaints by residents in Asaba and other parts of the State about a criminal syndicate that monitors customers who withdraw huge sums of money from banks, trail them, break into their vehicles at the slightest opportunity and cart away their money and other valuables,” said the Command’s spokesperson DSP Bright Edafe in a statement on Saturday.
According to the police image-maker, “The Command’s crack squad acting on credible intelligence, arrested one Izuchukwu Aniebue, age 42 and Kingsley Nduka, 32years, in the premises of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) along Mariam Babangida road Asaba.”
Continuing he said, the suspects trailed their victim “from one of the new generation banks at Nnebisi road, Asaba, where he went to withdraw some money, followed him to his house but before they could break into the vehicle, the police operatives rounded them up and arrested them.
“During interrogation, the suspects stated that they belong to a syndicate that specialises in trailing customers after making withdrawals from banks around Asaba to their destinations and thereafter break into their vehicles, cart away their money and other valuables and that they have been doing this for the past one year.”
