Bauchi State Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a crime where a 25-year-old man had his hand removed and was stabbed in the head.
Ahmed Wakil, the state Police Public Relations Officer, said in a statement on Friday that the suspect had been on the command’s wanted list for two years for thuggery and causing grievous harm. He claimed the suspect committed the crime alongside two others who are still at large.
He noted that his good fortune ran out when a police patrol team raided a black spot in a Bauchi suburb and arrested him.
He stated that the investigation revealed that the suspects committed the alleged crime, and that Abdullahi confessed to committing it during interrogation.”
He also stated that efforts were being made to locate the remaining suspects, after which they would be charged in court.
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Similarly, the PPRO reported that detectives assigned to the ‘C’ divisional police headquarters apprehended six suspected Sara-Suka thugs.
He claimed that they were apprehended on Sunday, July 23, 2023, around 7.30 p.m., while raiding a criminal hideout in Nasarawan Madina Quarters, Bauchi.
According to him, preliminary investigations revealed that “the suspects are into armed robbery and acts of thuggery.”
He stated that exhibits recovered from them included one long knife and some dry leaves suspected to be cannabis sativa, also known as Indian hemp, and that the suspects confessed to the crime during interrogation.