{"id":329107,"date":"2024-03-19T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=329107"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:11:41","slug":"police-arrest-two-lagos-traffic-robbery-suspects-disguising-as-beggars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=329107","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Two Lagos Traffic Robbery Suspects Disguising As Beggars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested two robbery suspects who pose as alms beggars in Lagos traffic gridlocks.<br \/>\nThe duo approached a motorist in a gridlock at Agungi area in Lekki on Friday, soliciting for alms, but forcefully took his telephone handset and jewellery and took to their heels.<br \/>\nPolice spokesman in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told The Tide\u2019s source, yesterday, that the motorist quickly alerted a nearby police patrol team that arrested the robbers.<br \/>\n\u201cThe stolen items were recovered from them.<br \/>\n\u201cThe two suspects will be arraigned accordingly\u2019\u2019 Hundeyin said.<br \/>\nHe told the source that police also arrested a woman, who attempted to transact a N90,000 business with a Point of Sale (PoS) machine operator, using fake N1,000 notes.<br \/>\nHundeyin said the vigilant PoS operator raised an alarm leading to the arrest of the woman.<br \/>\nHe said the suspect had been detained for investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested two robbery suspects who pose as alms beggars in Lagos traffic gridlocks. The duo approached a motorist in a gridlock at Agungi area in Lekki on Friday, soliciting for alms, but forcefully took his telephone handset and jewellery and took to their heels. Police spokesman in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329140,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329107\/revisions\/329140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}