A robbery suspect, Nathaniel Peters, who specialises in waylaying club goers and dispossessing them of their valuables, was on Sunday arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command at Abule Egba.
Although he was not the inital target of the RRS operatives, he was however arrested while fleeing a crime scene after he had dispossessed a club goer of his valuables.
The RRS operatives were combing the area for another robbery suspect, who had stabbed a lady after dispossessing her of her mobile phone, when they stumbled on Peters as he was fleeing.
He was taken into custody after the lady who was stabbed and robbed confirmed he wasn't the same person that attacked her.
The policemen upon arresting Peter, searched him and found a stolen laptop, three mobile phones, two wrist watches and other valuables.
Upon interrogation, Peters confessed that his modus operandi was to rob drunk club – goers of their phones, purse, gold rings and chains at the wee hours of every weekend.
On further interrogation, he said he was coming from a night club somewhere around Ikeja where he had dispossessed club goers of their valuables.
He said: "I have been visiting night clubs particularly those in Ikeja to break into parked vehicles and rob sleeping and drunk club goers of their valuables.
"I have been in this business since 2016. My friend, Sheriff introduced me to it. We were both butchers at the Agege Abattoir. He left the business after absconding with his boss’s N170,000.
"I ran into him few months later and he invited me to join him in visiting night clubs in the metropolis to rob clubbers. He told me it was very lucrative. I have discovered too that it is better than my job at the abbatoir.
"Each weekend, we start operations around 3:30am when club activities are winding down and clubbers are beginning to dose off. We rob those standing alone, sleeping in car and those that are drunk.
"We take their valuables. We break into cars too. When clubbers are drunk, they hardly feel our hands removing their valuables from their pockets and bodies.
"We have a style of removing their gold rings while they are asleep. We sell the valuables to a friend, who takes them to Ghana to resell. But now, I operate alone."
Confirming this, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, said the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has directed that the suspect be transferred to Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad (FSARS) for more investigations.
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