Woman leads gang to rob, snatch cars from Uber drivers
A female member of an armed robbery gang, whose area of specialization is attacking Uber drivers, has been arrested. Also arrested along with the woman are two members of the gang identified as Zino Tochukwu Ude and Anumelechi Chris Williams. The police, however, did not disclose the name of the female suspect, saying that she was […]
Zino Tochukwu Ude and Anumelechi Chris Williams, arrested along with an unidentified woman for snatching cars in Lagos. The woman’s identity is being protected by the police for investigation’s purpose.
A female member of an armed robbery gang, whose area of specialization is attacking Uber drivers, has been arrested.
Also arrested along with the woman are two members of the gang identified as Zino Tochukwu Ude and Anumelechi Chris Williams.
The police, however, did not disclose the name of the female suspect, saying that she was helping them to get at other fleeing suspects.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, who paraded the suspects yesterday at the command headquarters, said on January 19 at about 11:30am, an Uber driver picked a female passenger from Oniru to Orchid Hotel by 2nd Toll-gate, Lekki, unknown to him that the woman belonged to a gang of armed robbers.
Edgal said on their way to the said hotel, the woman asked the Uber Driver to pull over, to enable her collect money from her boyfriend.
According to him, the driver obliged her request and pulled over, but three armed men emerged and robbed him of his Toyota Corolla car, two phones and a cash sum of N20,000 and that thereafter, the robbers zoomed off with the woman.
“On receipt of the report, operatives of SARS, Oshodi-Tapa, Lagos Island base, swung into action and visited the scene of incident, where they picked objects of evidential value for analysis.
“The result of the enquiry led to the arrest of two of the suspects involved in the crime, namely: Zino Tochukwu Ude and Anumelechi Chris Williams and the recovery of their operational arms: a cut to size double barrel gun with two live cartridges.
“During interrogation, they confessed to the crime and aided operatives to recover the stolen car. They equally confessed to series of car snatching operations in Lagos and other contiguous states. They also led the operatives to recover one Honda Saloon car which they snatched in Delta State,” he added.
Edgal said investigation was ongoing with a view to arresting fleeing members of the gang for prosecution.