FCT Police arrest car snatchers, recover vehicles and fake dollar notes

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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has said its operatives have arrested three suspects, who specialize in car snatching and robbery in Abuja and its environs.

Parading the suspects, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ben Igweh, said the operatives of the FCT Police Command, on February 16, 2024, at about 3:00 and acting on credible intelligence, arrested three notorious and wanted car snatchers, namely; David Junior Godwin, male of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State (gang leader); Paul Taju, male of Gwagwalada, Abuja; and Ali Shitu, male of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.

The CP said the suspects are members of a four-man gang that specializes in interstate car theft and snatching noting that they are responsible for a series of car snatchings and the disappearance of several Hilux vehicles reportedly stolen in FCT and its environs.

Also, on February 23, 2024, at about 2:15 acting on credible intelligence, police operatives of the command from the Anti-fraud unit arrested two suspects, namely Abdullahi Yahaya, 35, male of Nasarawa State and Gold Ebere, 53, male of Jabi, Abuja, at Tin Can Resort Garden in Jabi, Abuja, in possession of 36 bundles of fake hundred (100) US dollar notes, totaling about $300,000 fake dollars.

The Commissioner of Police said the suspects confessed to being members of an eight-man gang that specialized in the interstate sale of fake dollar notes and had sold several of the fake notes to unsuspecting residents of FCT before they ran out of luck and were apprehended.

The suspects are currently assisting the police in apprehending other gang members on the run.

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