Two members of a syndicate that specialized in trailing customers who withdraw money from banks have been arrested by men of the Delta State Police Command, the Public Relations Officer of the command, Bright Edafe, disclosed today.
The Police PRO announced the development on his X handle in a video posted after he interrogated the men, who gave their names as Osadeduwa Goodluck, aged 51 years and Nnamdi Arhiwodan, aged 50 years.
According to the Police PRO, their method of operation is that they would park their tinted car, a Toyota Corolla, beside or close to banks along the roads in the state capital and would wait inside for unsuspecting bank customers who had gone inside to withdraw money.
Whenever the customers left the banks and parked along the roads to buy things, according to the Police PRO, they would use their master keys to enter the vehicles and take the money away.
The long arm of the law caught up with them when they waited at a popular bank in Asaba, the state capital, and policemen, who had got intelligence reports about their nefarious activities, swooped on them, arrested the two men while the third member of the syndicate was said to have escaped.
In the video posted by Edafe, one of the arrested men, Nnamdi, disclosed that the highest amount they had stolen inside parked vehicles was N250,000, adding that it’s not all the vehicles they targeted that they succeeded in using the master keys to open.
Below is the screenshot of the post by the Police PRO on the matter: