Police arrest five over truck break-in, sheep, phone and transformer theft in Niger

The Niger State Police Command has arrested five suspects in separate cases involving an attempted truck break-in, livestock theft, phone snatching and vandalism of electricity transformer components. The Police Public Relations Officer of the state, SP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this in a statement in Minna. He said the arrests, made between October 27 and November 3, also led to the recovery of two sheep, a mobile phone and tools allegedly used in breaking into trucks. According to him, police operatives attached to Maje Division intercepted a Sharon vehicle along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway around 4:15 am on November 3. The PRO revealed that the vehicle, driven by Alkasim Mohammed of Mar...