Lagos State police command has arrested one of the two armed robbers who usually fill their handkerchiefs with sleeping drug powder which they doused on victims to sleep before dispossessing them of their property in Lagos metropolis.
A police sergeant attached to Festac Police Station, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, disclosed that the two robbers who specialized in escaping on motorcycle after drugging and dispossessing their victims of their valuables were robbing in a shop at 4th Avenue, Festac Town on Sunday when somebody suspected them and called the divisional police officer of the station, SP Ifeanyi Owo, on phone.
He said Owo led anti- robbery patrol team to the scene but on sighting the policemen, the bandits took to their heels.
He said the police gave them a hot pursuit and succeeded in arresting one of them identified as Ifeanyi Chizoba, while the other suspect with a gun managed to escape, through the motorcycle.
Chizoba was said to have confessed to the police that they usually used the powdery substance to sprinkle on the handkerchief and when they arrived the scene to commit the offence they would be waving the handkerchief and immediately people in a shop inhale the substance, they would sleep off.
He confessed that they have robbed many people using the criminal formula.
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