Nasarawa states 05-2021. It was reportedly said that one master Augustin, of Auta Balefi, was arrested while trying to sell a car.
Operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have arrested a suspected notorious criminal who allegedly stole his neighbor’s car when she went to pick her child from a school in Abuja.
The Police arrested the notorious criminal after recovering a stolen vehicle. On 4/12/2021 at about 14:30hrs, while acting on credible intelligence, Police operatives attached to New Karu Area Command arrested one Augustine Idom ‘M’ 28yrs old of Auta Balefi, Karu Local Government Area of the State where one Toyota Sienna, Ash in color with registration number ABUJA RBC 234 BG was recovered from him while negotiations to sell the vehicle was ongoing,” the statement reads.
It was revealed during the preliminary investigation that the suspect was contacted by his neighbor to kindly assist in driving her to pick her up a child from school at Zone 3, FCT Abuja; the suspect criminally made away with the vehicle when the owner of the vehicle went into the school to pick up her child before unforeseen occurrences might catch up with him.
CP Adesina Soyemi Known to be the Commissioner of Police, thanked members of the public for their continuous support to the Police by way of providing useful information and urges them not to relent, after thanking the good citizens of the local government and promising that the suspect will be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Lafia for discreet investigation.
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