Sadiq Isma’il, an 18-years-old suspect has been arrested and detained by the Kano State Police Command for burglary and theft of sixteen stolen Plasma TVs sets.
Police spokesman, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa Haruna in a statement, claimed that a covert investigation which began on Wednesday, June 22, resulted in the capture of one Abdullahi Muktar, the individual who bought the st@len goods.
The suspect admitted to selling all of the stolen TVs worth N1.2 million for just N350,000.00 and used some of the proceeds to book a hotel room for him and his girlfriend.
The police SP said, “On 22/06/2022 at about 0800hrs, a report was received from a resident of Sharada Quarters Kano that, on the same date, he went to his shop
and discovered that unknown hoodlum(s) broke the window of his shop and stole sixteen (16) Plasma TV (32 inches each) valued One Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N1,200,000:00), at Seventy Five Thousand Naira (N75,000:00) each.
Sustained intelligence-led follow-up resulted in the arrest of the principal suspect, Sadiq Isma’il, 18, at a Hotel in Nassarawa LGA, Kano State, where he lodged. On preliminary investigation, the suspect confessed that he singlehandedly went to the shop around 2300hrs of 21/06/2022, broke the window and made away with the sixteen (16) Plasma TVs.
He further confessed that he sold all the sixteen(16) Plasma TVs at N350,000 and at N21,875:00 each, where he used part of the money to lodge in a hotel with his girlfriend.”
Discover more from KossyDerrickent
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
