Crime
Armed Robber Using PoS Machine Arrested During Robbery In Rivers
After much interrogation and disciplinary actions, the ATM robber confessed they had been in the business for a while now.
One of the members belonging to a two-man robbery gang was caught in the act while robbing residents at gunpoint in the town of Onne, in Eleme, Rivers State.
The security team of the Onne Youth Congress (OYC) on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, apprehended the suspect, while his accomplice managed to escape during a heated chase.
In a statement made on Wednesday, Comrade Douglas Ollor, the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the President of the Onne Youth Congress (OYC), revealed that the suspects had been armed with a Point of Sale machine which they used to carry out unauthorized money transfers from the bank accounts of their targeted victims.
“In the early hours of yesterday Tuesday 22-08-2023, two men in a Keke mini bus were found around F.O.T. axis, using guns to steal ATM cards from people, forcing the owners to release their ATM pin, and then use the card to make an instant transfer, using the P.O.S. machine they came with,” Mr. Ollor stated.
“Luck ran out of them when they entered inside the community, as the S.A. on media to the Onne Youth President, Comr. Douglas Ollor saw them and raised an alarm which alerted the security architecture in Onne.
“The OYC security team chased them to Nafcon junction where one was caught, and one ran away.
After much interrogation and disciplinary actions, the ATM robber confessed they had been in the business for a while now.
“The suspect said they parked their Toyota Spider at Refinery junction and used keke mini bus to enter Onne, do their biddings, then returned back
“However, the security team didn’t take laws into their hands, they handed over the robber to the army personnel that were on duty at the Nafcon junction axis.”
