– Mother and two sons arrested for armed robbery
– Victim’s younger brother fingered in the robbery incident
A 60-year-old woman identified as Aisha Isyaku and her two sons have been arrested for alleged armed robbery by the Kano State Police Command, Ekohotblog reports
The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Habu A. Sani, on Thursday, July 23, at the Bompai police command, paraded 392 suspected criminals amongst whom were Mrs. Isyaku and her sons.
According to statements by CP Sani, the suspects were apprehended on July 2 after they had attacked and robbed their victims of the sum of 400,000.
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Ekohotblog gathered that the robbery took place at the residence of Abdullahi Isa at Rantan village of Bebeji Local Government Area of the state.
Sani said, “acting on credible intelligence, the police of Operation Puff Adder of the command attached to Special Anti-Robbery Squad stormed the suspect’s residence and conducted an on the spot search.
“Upon the search, we recovered 2 AK-47 rifles, 2 magazines containing 41 rounds 7.62 mm live ammunition, one single barrel gun with 4 live cartridges and a set of suspected army camouflage uniforms.”
Meanwhile, investigations revealed the younger brother of the complaint to be complicit in the crime and was subsequently arrested, and also, the mother of the suspects was arrested for concealing exhibits from the crime.
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