Police Arrests Man who Burgled Shop, Stole 52 Computers

The Police authority in Ogun State has nabbed a salesman in a private business establiment who orchestrated the theft of 52 computer monitors from his office.

The suspect, Michael Daniel, 31, was picked by crack detectives of the Ogun State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Abeokuta following a complaint lodged by his employer.

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In a statement made available to newsmen, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that one Mrs. Titilayo Ero of Dorf Royal Events Centre in Asero, Abeokuta, the state capital, reported that she got to her store on September 30, 2018 and was shocked at the disappearance of fifty two computer monitors.

In Mrs. Ero's account, the store was burgled, a development that piqued the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who gave a matching order to the detectives to fish out perpetrators of the nefarious act.

According to the PPRO, "The detectives swiftly moved into action and invited the salesman, who was barely three weeks old in the employment of the events Centre, and named one 23-year-old Smith Ajao, with whom they carried out the criminal act at night.

"The said Smith Ajao was traced to a hotel in Sango-Otta area of the state, where he was promptly arrested and thus led the detectives to Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos", Oyeyemi stated, adding that forty-eight out of the stolen items had been recovered.