LAGOS POLICE SMASH VICIOUS AND NOTORIOUS CAR SNATCHING AND ARMED ROBBERY SYNDICATE In a major breakthrough in the ongoing fight against violent crimes in Lagos State, detectives and crack operatives of the Lagos State Police Command’s Tactical Squads have successfully smashed a notorious and vicious armed robbery and car-snatching gang responsible for a series of violent attacks on vehicle owners. The suspects specialized in entering vehicles as passengers and, while in transit, dispossessing the owners of their vehicles at gunpoint. (2) Between 0100hrs on 15th October 2025 and 0300hrs on 17th October 2025, intelligence-led operations carried out by the Command’s Tactical Squads led to the arrest of four (4) dangerous and confessed armed robbers at their hideout in Igando, Lagos State. The suspects arrested are: Taiwo Alabi “m”, 42 years; Ogedengbe Lowis “m”, 46 years; Ighodalo Enato Francis “m”, 37 years; and Osaro Eghe Abiodun “m”, 34 years. During interrogation, the suspects confessed to having dispossessed vehicle owners of their cars at gunpoint and making away with the vehicles. They have also been linked to several armed robbery incidents in Ogun, Oyo, and Edo States. (3) Exhibits recovered from the suspects include one (1) automatic pump-action shotgun, one (1) Beretta pistol, forty-eight (48) rounds of 9mm ammunition, forty-six (46) live cartridges, one (1) cutlass, assorted criminal charms, one (1) Toyota Sienna, two (2) Lexus ES350 salon cars, and one (1) Toyota Corolla salon car. (4) Preliminary investigation reveals that the modus operandi of the gang involved posing as passengers to enter commercial vehicles and later robbing unsuspecting private drivers of their vehicles at gunpoint. One of the vehicles was snatched in Lagos, while the others were reportedly robbed in Ogun, Oyo, and Edo States using the same modus operandi. All the suspects were meticulously tracked, trailed, and arrested across the states mentioned above. The successful operation followed weeks of coordinated surveillance and intelligence gathering on the suspects. (5) Investigative efforts are being intensified to apprehend other gang members currently at large. The Lagos State Police Command remains fully committed to dismantling all forms of crime, criminality, and criminal syndicates in the State. (6) The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Olohundare Jimoh, hereby assures residents that the Command will continue to ensure peace, stability, and intelligence-led policing to rid the State of criminal elements. SP ABIMBOLA ADEBISI, anipr, mipra POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, LAGOS STATE COMMAND. 17TH OCTOBER, 2025

LAGOS POLICE SMASH VICIOUS AND NOTORIOUS CAR SNATCHING AND ARMED ROBBERY SYNDICATE

A major breakthrough in the ongoing fight against violent crimes in Lagos State, detectives and crack operatives of the Lagos State Police Command’s Tactical Squads have successfully smashed a notorious and vicious armed robbery and car-snatching gang responsible for a series of violent attacks on vehicle owners. The suspects specialized in entering vehicles as passengers and, while in transit, dispossessing the owners of their vehicles at gunpoint.

(2) Between 0100hrs on 15th October 2025 and 0300hrs on 17th October 2025, intelligence-led operations carried out by the Command’s Tactical Squads led to the arrest of four (4) dangerous and confessed armed robbers at their hideout in Igando, Lagos State. The suspects arrested are: Taiwo Alabi “m”, 42 years; Ogedengbe Lowis “m”, 46 years; Ighodalo Enato Francis “m”, 37 years; and Osaro Eghe Abiodun “m”, 34 years. During interrogation, the suspects confessed to having dispossessed vehicle owners of their cars at gunpoint and making away with the vehicles. They have also been linked to several armed robbery incidents in Ogun, Oyo, and Edo States.

(3) Exhibits recovered from the suspects include one (1) automatic pump-action shotgun, one (1) Beretta pistol, forty-eight (48) rounds of 9mm ammunition, forty-six (46) live cartridges, one (1) cutlass, assorted criminal charms, one (1) Toyota Sienna, two (2) Lexus ES350 salon cars, and one (1) Toyota Corolla salon car.

(4) Preliminary investigation reveals that the modus operandi of the gang involved posing as passengers to enter commercial vehicles and later robbing unsuspecting private drivers of their vehicles at gunpoint. One of the vehicles was snatched in Lagos, while the others were reportedly robbed in Ogun, Oyo, and Edo States using the same modus operandi. All the suspects were meticulously tracked, trailed, and arrested across the states mentioned above. The successful operation followed weeks of coordinated surveillance and intelligence gathering on the suspects.

(5) Investigative efforts are being intensified to apprehend other gang members currently at large. The Lagos State Police Command remains fully committed to dismantling all forms of crime, criminality, and criminal syndicates in the State.

(6) The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Olohundare Jimoh, hereby assures residents that the Command will continue to ensure peace, stability, and intelligence-led policing to rid the State of criminal elements.