Sadiq Isma'il, an 18-years-old suspect has been arrested and detained by the Kano State Police Command for b#rglary and th#ft of sixteen st@len Plasma TVs sets.
Police spokesman, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa Haruna in a statement, claimed that a covert investigation which began on Wednesday, June 22, resulted in the c#pture of one Abdullahi Muktar, the individual who bought the st@len goods.
The suspect admitted to selling all of the st@len TVs worth N1.2 million for just N350,000.00 and used some of the proceeds to book a hotel room for him and his girlfriend.
The police SP said, "On 22/06/2022 at about 0800hrs, a report was received from a resident of Sharada Quarters Kano that, on the same date, he went to his shop
and discovered that unknown hoodlum(s) br@ke the window of his shop and st@le sixteen (16) Plasma TV (32 inches each) valued One Million, Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N1,200,000:00), at Seventy Five Thousand Naira (N75,000:00) each.
Sustained intelligence-led follow-up resulted in the arrest of the principal suspect, Sadiq Isma'il, 18, at a Hotel in Nassarawa LGA, Kano State, where he lodged. On preliminary investigation, the suspect confessed that he singlehandedly went to the shop around 2300hrs of 21/06/2022, broke the window and made away with the sixteen (16) Plasma TVs.
He further confessed that he sold all the sixteen(16) Plasma TVs at N350,000 and at N21,875:00 each, where he used part of the money to lodge in a hotel with his girlfriend.”