Police in Delta State have arrested two suspects, Ofemu Obus and Henry Ekpu, for allegedly specialising in defrauding unsuspecting Point Of Sale operators by generating fake alerts.
A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, said Obus, 23 and Ekpu, 28, had on several occasions deceived their victims and defraud them of their money before they were apprehended.
The statement also disclosed that operatives of Dragon Patrol teams 29 and 26, led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, while on stop-and-search duty along Warri-Sapele road, intercepted a Daylong motorcycle with Reg. No. Delta UGH 353 VQ carrying two male occupants who were later identified as phone snatchers.
The suspects were 26-year-old John Francis and 25-year-old Godsent Orogun.
Edafe said the officers saw an iphone, one Infinix phone, one Nokia torch phone on the suspects and while the search was ongoing, owners of the phones started calling, disclosing that they were in Sapele and Oghara respectively.
Meanwhile, an armed robbery syndicate operating along Awka-Enugu highway axis but hibernate in Asaba, the Delta State capital, was also accosted by the police.
The spokesman said operatives of CP-Decoy squad, acting on a tip-off, mobilised to Oduke-Okwe axis of Asaba where the suspects were seen driving a Toyota Sienna with Reg. No. ASB 781 YF.
They were said to have taken to their heels and ran into the market when they saw the operatives.
“Upon search of the vehicle, one locally-made Barretta Pistol and a Samsung phone were recovered beneath the driver’s seat,” the statement said.
Edafe revealed that all arrested suspects are in custody pending investigation, adding that all recovered items and fleeing suspects are also been investigated.