The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 22-year old vulcanizer, Dele Ope, for stealing a pant that belongs to his client.
DSP Abimbola Olayemi, PPRO Ogun State Police Command, in a press release which was made available to CEOAFRICA said the suspect was arrested following a report by a woman (name withheld) who reported at Warewa division that she discovered her car tire had been deflated when she wanted to go out, which resulted to her requesting for the service of the vulcanizer.
“After fixing the tire, she discovered that her pant spread on the rope within the compound was missing, since the vulcanizer was the only person who came around, she went in search of him but he was nowhere to be found” the statement read.
Upon the report, the DPO Warewa division SP Folake Afeniforo detailed detectives to the area where the suspect was traced and apprehended. According to her, the suspect’s house was searched and the woman’s pant was recovered.
During interrogation, the suspect confessed stealing the pant with the intention of taking it to a herbalist for money rituals.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, CP Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered that the suspect be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.