Three armed robbery suspects were on Sunday, June 19th arrested by men of Ogun State police command after they crashed into a culvert while escaping with a Toyota Camry car they allegedly snatched at gunpoint somewhere in Ondo State.
DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the spokesperson of the state police command, said the suspects were coming from Ondo State, heading towards Lagos, but on getting to a point at Ode Remo, due to dangerous driving, the vehicle hit a culvert and somersaulted.
The PPRO said the three occupants sustained injuries and were rushed to the hospital by the policemen from Ode Remo divisional headquarters.
It was while the men were being treated that the DPO of Ode Remo division, CSP Fasogbon Olayemi, received a piece of information that the vehicle in question was snatched at gunpoint by the accident victims.
The DPO consequently ordered that they should be placed under arrest right in the hospital.
The owner of the vehicle who came all the way from Ondo State, explained that, he was accosted on the road by a gang of five men dressed like policemen, and that he was dragged out of the car at gunpoint and the vehicle was taken away.
One of the suspects, identified as Emeka John later died while receiving treatment.
The remaining two, namely: Sunday Emmanuel and Idris Ibrahim were ordered to be transferred to state criminal investigation and intelligence department by the commissioner of police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun, for onward transfer to Ondo state command where they will be prosecuted, the PPRO said.
