A Lagos-based car wash operator, Idris Ayotunde have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command after he fled with his customer’s car to Ogun State.
The suspect, an OND holder from a polytechnic in one of the South-West states, reportedly started the car wash business at Jimoh bus stop, Shasha in Akowonjo, Lagos State, a few months ago.
He, however, fled with his customer’s SUV on Friday, December 4 but was intercepted at Alakija Village, via Olodo, on the Abeokuta/Ibadan Express Road.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed these in a statement on Sunday.
Oyeyemi revealed that the suspect failed to provide the vehicle’s particulars when he was asked for it and was then taken to the police station where it was discovered that the car had been stolen.
The suspect disclosed that the female owner brought it for vacuum cleaning and handed over the key to him.
He added;
Since he did not have vacuum cleaner in his car wash, he decided to take it to another car wash nearby. But he changed his mind on the road and bolted away with the car.
It was on his way to Ibadan where he intended to dispose the car that he was arrested.
The PPRO added that the owner of the car, Mrs Shofidiya Tosin, who reported the case at Shasha Police Station, has been contacted.
Speaking on how the suspect was arrested, Oyeyemi explained;
The suspect was arrested at Alakija village via Olodo around 8.17 am by a safer highway patrol team which was on stop and search along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Expressway.
The team stopped the car and demanded its documents, which the suspect was unable to produce, consequent upon which he was taken to Odeda divisional headquarters where the DPO, Ajayi Williams, personally interrogated the suspect and found out that he actually stole the car.
The PPRO said the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the transfer of the case to Lagos, where the car was stolen.
