The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday arrested an 18-year-old ex-convict over alleged serial phone thief in Oshodi.
The suspect, Sadeeq Wasiu, who had been imprisoned seven times, was re-arrested in Oshodi after several months of being on the operatives’ wanted list.
Wasiu, alias “Omo Eiye”, as he is popularly called in Oshodi, was arrested at Oshodi Under Bridge while trying to escape after snatching an Infinix Note 3 from an undergraduate.
Before his arrest, Wasiu had been fingered to be the master-mind of four-phone thefts and two bag snatching attempt in Oshodi.
Wasiu, who disclosed to interrogators that he was released from Potoki Prison, Badagry in January, 2017, said he ran away from Ikire, Osun State when he was 15 years old.
“I was 15 years old when I came to Lagos to work as a conductor in 2014….
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