The Ogun State So-Safe Corps apprehended a 19-year-old youth, Abiodun Elegbede, for reportedly robbing a church and two other residences in the Ago Araromi community in Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that the man was apprehended after the corps received a distress call from residents.
According to Moruf Yusuf, a spokesman for the So-Safe Corps, the corps received a distress call around 2 a.m. on Thursday requesting immediate intervention to arrest Elegbede, a resident of Ajegunle, Ipobe, in Ipokia Local Government Area.
According to Yusuf, “the suspect was arrested after he burgled a church and two different houses.”
He was nabbed by the Ilaro divisional patrol team led by the Divisional Officer, SC Ojenride Wasiu.
Yusuf disclosed that four Itel phones were recovered from the suspect.
He said the suspect and the exhibits found with him have been transferred to the IIaro Divisional Police Headquarters for further investigation and likely prosecution.