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A robbery gang, which specialised in
disguising as bank customers and robbing unsuspecting wealthy bank
patrons, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command.
Our correspondent gathered that the
three-man gang, which allegedly operated in the FESTAC Town area, was
nabbed by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after one of
their victims reported his encounter with them to the police.
According to Punch, the two
members of the gang ─ Chinedu Okeke and Kolawole Best ─ were arrested
while a third member, identified only as Ben, is still at large.
It was gathered that the trio
usually went to commercial banks in the area to monitor customers as
they withdrew cash from cashiers or the Automated Teller Machines.
The suspects would then trail those with the......
highest cash withdrawal, until they could rob them without being caught.
The police explained that the gang
members, who had an operational vehicle and a motorcycle to trail their
victims, would demand the money at gunpoint, while customers who refused
to “cooperate” would be shot.
The police said the gang, apart from
pretending as bank customers and robbing people of money, also snatched
and sold expensive cars in the area.
It was learnt that an AK-47 and six loaded magazines were recovered from the gang.
It was learnt that during
one of the gang’s operations on Friday, April 24, at about 11am, a man
was attacked and a sum of N500,000 stolen from him at gunpoint.
Culled - Punch
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