Lanrewaju Jaiyeola
A man pretending to be a madman who wanted to commit fraud has been apprehended by the police with 22 ATM cards, phones and other implicating materials.
Men of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected madman with 22 Automatic Teller Machine, ATM, cards, two mobile phones and power bank in Victoria Island.
Lanrewaju Jaiyeola, 39, was apprehended by the police after the suspicious manner he carried a backpack along Ozumba Mbadiwe Road. After he was searched, 22 assorted credit cards, one Nokia phone, a blackberry, a power bank, several bank tellers of recent bank transactions and lots of invoices, amidst numerous pieces of papers, were found on him.
It was discovered that eight of the credit cards were still valid. Out of these, three would expire in 2018, another three would expire in 2017, while two would expire in 2016. All the credit cards bore different names and of various banks.
RRS Commander, ACP Olatunji Disu, confirmed the report. Disu revealed that upon arrival at the RRS Headquarters in Alausa, the suspect made “statements suggestive of somebody disguising as a mad man to perpetrate crime around that axis.”
He said: “Initially, we noticed that he was mentally balanced because he was answering the questions posted to him adequately. But all of a sudden, he started sounding incoherent and illogical.
“He threatened the investigative Police officer, saying ‘I will make life unbearable for you if you don’t let me go’.
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