Four boys aged 14 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in his 20s was allegedly killed while walking on a footpath.
Police were called at around 7.20pm on Friday, June 11 to a footpath near Stonebridge Close in Telford, Shropshire, UK following reports that...
A 26-year-old serial burglar identified as Opeyemi Tosin has been arrested for reportedly stealing no fewer than 26 generators in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
He was arrested alongside two, ThankGod James, 22 and Sodiq Segun, 23 who were accused of allegedly helping him sell the stolen generators.
Tosin who confessed to the crime...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, has arrested a man and his father over alleged Internet fraud.
Malik Giles Bakare and his father, Isa Bola Bakare, are being investigated in an alleged case of conspiracy, computer-related fraud, obtaining by false pretense and retention of proceeds of...
The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested 50 suspected internet fraudsters.
A statement released by Wilson Uwujaren, the spokesperson of the state police command, said the suspects were arrested at Alaro Sango, Agbaje Ijokoro, and Apete Aladura areas of Ibadan, Oyo State following...
A Nigerian man with the initials B.E.O was detained at the Istanbul Airport after he ingested 844 grams of a narcotic substance.
The drugs he ingested were in 96 capsules and were picked out by the airport body scanners.
The suspect, who came to Istanbul with the Ethiopia-Istanbul flight, was detained...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have seized illicit drugs including cocaine, heroin, cannabis weighing 37.3kilograms and arrested seven drug traffickers at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
Director, Media and Advocy of the anti-narcotic agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, June...
A Nigerian identified as Charles Onus has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for his alleged involvement in diverting $800,000 into prepaid debit cards, barely a month after Abidemi Rufai, an aide to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state was arrested for fraud in the United States.
The United State Department of...
A Nigerian and a Libyan national have been arrested three months after they allegedly drove away with two SUVs from a Kia showroom at Kogilu Cross, Bengaluru, India.
The accused identified as Ofen Michael aka John Nero,25, from Nigeria and his accomplice, Saifi Edden Guma Taher Be Hamid, 27, from Libya, were arrested...
The Delta State Police Command has arrested 12 members of a drug syndicate that allegedly supply criminals in Sapele illicit drugs.
Spokesperson of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday June 1, said police acted on a tip-off and raided the hideout of the syndicate.
"Acting on Credible intelligence that a...
An Indian police constable has been injured in an attack while he was arresting two Nigerian nationals based on a tip-off that they were drug peddlers.
Officials said the incident occurred at Major Deepak Tyagi Marg in the Janakpuri area of West Delhi, on Sunday morning, May 30.
One of the accused Nigerians was arrested...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have launched fresh raids on online drug traffickers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, during which a young lady and her boyfriend as well as eight others were arrested and assorted drugs recovered from them.
Femi Babafemi, the Director, Media &...
UK police seized more than £5million of criminal loot during a raid on a luxury two-bedroom flat in Britain’s biggest ever cash raid.
The huge cash seizure followed an operation launched in August 2019 by a pro-active team from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command targeting the organised crime networks, Sun...
A suspected internet frauster who allegedly tried to buy a Range Rover worth N44million with Bitcoin, has been arrested by the EFCC.
The suspect identified as Tobiloba Aramide Ogundiyan is accused by the EFCC’s Advance Fee Fraud Section of committing online fraud and converting his loot into cryptocurrency.
A statement released by the agency...
The US-based man killed by the Abia vigilante he employed to keep him safe has been pictured.
The man, identified as Enyinnaya Mark Ogbonna, is said to have returned to Nigeria to invest and was building a gas station .
He hired a member of the Abia State vigilante group, Okorie Chukwuma,...
A Nigerian man identified as Ezeneche Uzochukwu and five Thais has been arrested in Bangkok for a N2 billion romance scam.
A police search of seven locations in Bangkok, Nakhon Sawan, Phuket and Pathum Thani on Monday, led to the arrest of the six suspects, Pol Maj Gen Suwat Saengnoom, chief...
A 23-year-old Nigerian man was sentenced to death on Tuesday, May 25, for smuggling nearly six kilos of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Theophilus Ugwu was charged with "illegal trafficking of narcotic substances" by the People's Court of Western province of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, Thanh Nien newspaper reported.
On March 8 2020, police found...
An Italian mafia boss and notorious drug smuggler dubbed the "king of cocaine" has been arrested in Brazil two years after breaking out of prison in Uruguay and going on the run.
Rocco Morabito, a fugitive drug lord with ties to the powerful 'Ndrangheta criminal gang, was arrested in a...
A young Nigerian who claims to be an "investment expert" has been arrested for allegedly diverting investors’ funds worth over N2 billion.
21-year-old Dominic Ngene Joshua, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Brisk Capital Limited, was arrested by the Special Fraud Unit, Lagos.
Dominic was arrested following petitions to the unit by several...
A Brazil-based drug kingpin has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who also intercepted 36 blocks of cocaine, weighing 27.95 kilogrammes with a street value of over N8billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.
A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson...
A 41-year-old Nigerian man has been arrested in Delhi for allegedly duping families of Covid-19 patients on the pretext of selling to them Remdesivir injections, used for the treatment of the infection.
Police arrested the accused identified as Chibuike P Daniel, from his rented apartment in the Khanpur area of South Delhi on...
Emmanuel Eneji, a 23-year-old movie producer, and nineteen others have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, for alleged internet fraud.
According to a statement released by the EFCC, the nineteen suspects whose ages range between 19 and 36 include Okonkwo...
A Nigerian man identified as Abidemi Rufai, has been arrested in the United States of America in connection with a $350, 000 COVID19 unemployment benefits fraud. Rufai is one of the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state.
According to a statement released by the United States Department of Justice,...
The Kaduna state police command has arrested five suspected rail-trail vandals at Dalle Village of Jema'a LGA of Kaduna state. and recovered two trucks loaded with locomotive railway sleepers.
A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, ASP Muhammed Jalige, says the suspects were arrested on May 13...
Police have charged a group of 29 men in connection with child sexual exploitation of a girl over a seven-year period in West Yorkshire, UK
According to the charge sheet released Thursday, May 13, majority of the alleged crime is said to have taken place in Calderdale, with some said...
A man accused of killing a Yale graduate student in Connecticut back in February has been arrested, U.S. Marshals announced Friday May 14.
Qinxuan Pan, a graduate student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was arrested in Montgomery on Friday morning in connection to the death of 26-year-old Yale graduate...
A transgender woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbing a Mississippi bank to pay for her plastic surgery in Mexico.
The woman, who calls herself Iconic Facce, robbed BancorpSouth in Gulfport on February 22, 2019, after approaching a teller before telling her you have 'one minute' to...
A young man has been accused of running his friend over with a car to avoid paying a debt of 30,000 Naira.
Essien Akpoiko James, the son of Late Rev. OJ Essien of 32, Gibbs street, Uyo, allegedly ran Ephraim Edet Okon George over with a Lexus car on May 12, in Uyo,...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a former Vice Chairman of Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Asekun Kehinde Sakiru.
Asekun was nabbed by NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, with cocaine concealed in pairs of slippers.
Spokesman of the of the...
Men of Operation Zenda have uncovered mass graves and exhumed decomposing bodies of six persons including kidnap victims in Michiche Council ward, Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State.
Two suspects, Aondoaseer Terseer alias Bob Tsetse, 23, and Orkashima David alias Cash Money, 22, who were arrested in Osun State for kidnapping, led the...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office, have arrested 52 suspected internet fraudsters.
The suspects were arrested in different locations in Benin City sequel to actionable intelligence on Sunday, May 9.
Those arrested are Wisdom Attah, Alasa Solomon Osho, Jonathan Udofia, Emmanuel Udofia, Oyinbo Tejiri, Edoghogho...
At least 40 worshippers have been abducted by armed bandits at a mosque in Jibiya town, Jibiya Local Government Area of Katsina State.
It was gathered that the bandits stormed the mosque while worshippers were observing Tahajjud, a midnight prayer observed during the Holy Month of Ramadan.
Residents of the town told...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have busted an online drug trafficking cartel that sells drugged cookies, cakes, brownies and all sorts of illicit substances to residents of Abuja and beyond, using the cyber space as its platform.
Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 23-year-old suspected drug trafficker, Okoguale Douglas, who excreted 59 wraps of heroin weighing 781.2 grams at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the agency stated that Douglas, who hails from Uromi in...
A 34-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly shot and killed his wife in the parking area of Shoprite Supermarket in Polokwane, Limpopo.
Police spokesperson, Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo, who confirmed the incident on Friday May 7, said the shooting happened at the corner of Grobler and Landdross Mare streets on...
A serial rapist, Abdallah Baballah, 25, struck five times in 11 days after stalking women off trains and buses and dragging them into bushes, it has been revealed.
Baballah followed his victims as they left London Tube stations and bus stops then he sexually assaulted and threatened to stab them.
The...
A Ghanaian woman identified as Florence, has been bathed with a susbstance suspected to be acid by her husband.
Details of the incident are still sketchy, however, according to a report posted by Crime Check TV Ghana on Friday, May 7, the woman had moved to her father's house after her...
Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the suspected leader of a syndicate who allegedly specializes in selling and buying human organs for trafficking to foreigners.
The syndicate suspected leader, Ukaeje John Emeka ( alias Dr. Phil Mark, Dr. Donald...
A Benue State University graduate, Okiemute Deborah, was arrested by the Makurdi Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, shortly after she flaunted her lavish lifestyle on Facebook.
Deborah and three other suspected members of a syndicate of internet fraudsters were arrested in the state capital last Saturday,...
A jury in Rome on Wednesday, May 5, delivered verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, handing them life imprisonement for the murder of Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35.
Elder and Natale-Hjorth, who became friends while attending Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, were found...
A woman who murdered her friend and dismembered her body after she refused to have sex with her, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 23 and a half years.
Gareeca Gordon, 28, murdered Phoenix Netts, also 28, at the property where they both lived in Birmingham on...
A woman who suffered burns on 15 percent of her body, after her neighbour connived with her baby daddy to pour acid on her, is asking for justice.
Ivie narrated how a woman named Nora contacted her to buy things from her. From there, they discovered they were neighbours in...
A Nigerian national has been arrested at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in New Delhi, India with N206,062.67 worth of drugs concealed in his underwear.
The accused identified as Nonso Ekwalor Base was apprehended by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Tuesday, May 4, on the basis of “behaviour detection"
CISF said...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office have arrested seven suspected internet fraudsters.
The suspects, Laure Anya, Benjamin Okoro, Eze Emmanuel, Oko Francis, Ubah Samuel, Uwandu Michael, and Akpan Itoro were arrested following actionable intelligence.
They were nabbed on April 16, at a popular hotel in...
The Bellville Commercial Crimes Court Cape Town, has sentenced a Nigerian fraudster Chinonso Pascal Eze, who ran an online dating scam in which he duped unsuspecting women out of over R1 035 030 (N26m)
Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Eric Ntabazalila said in a statement that Eze, 36, was...
A suspected drug trafficker, Chibogu Ernest Obiora, intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, has excreted 97 wraps of cocaine worth N360m.
Director, Media & Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement...
33 suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested by the operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The suspects were apprehended at Adigbe, Oloke, Ibara Housing Estate Extension, and Idi Ori areas in Abeokuta, Ogun State following actionable intelligence received on their alleged criminal...
Two Nigerian men have been arrested in Suwon, South Korea for allegedly swindling South Korean victims, mostly women, of tens of thousands of dollars in romance scams, local police said Wednesday, April 28.
According to the Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency, just south of Seoul, the suspects defrauded four South Koreans,...
A trans-border trafficker, Emeka Okoro and another drug dealer, Ibrahim Bello have been arrested in Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with cocaine weighing 1.1kilogramme, which has a street value of N264million.
Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on...
Operatives of the Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested 18 suspected Internet fraudsters in Lagos State.
The suspects include Ayomide Christian Balogun, Harrison Etshede, Rahim Ibrahim Ajiboye, Nwafor Ebuka, Christian Onyenachi, Egbe Emmanuel Olemuno, Okoye Charles, Moses Isaac Benjamin, and Abubakar Mukthar.
Others are Ayodele...
A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a jury convicted him of setting a woman’s home and car on fire after she rejected his unwanted advances.
Jerel Jay Wilson, 29, of Union City, Georgia was found guilty of simple battery and first- and second-degree arson in the attacks,...
A 42-year-old man identified as Papa Gyabi has been arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend with a hammer after he claims she denied him sex.
The incident happened in Shama-Kumasi in the Western region of Ghana in the early hours of Saturday, April 24.
It was gathered that the incident which occurred...
A serial Japanese dater has been arrested for allegedlly dating 35 different women at the same time.
Takashi Miyagawa, a part-time worker from the Japanese region of Kansai, had told each of the women he had been dating that his birthday was on a different date in order to receive gifts...
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 14 suspected internet fraudsters.
The suspects are: Abiodun Gbolahan Seidu, Joseph Aganaga Ndubuisi, Sodimu Olawale Sikirudeen, Ohaekim Christopher, Ambali Oluwaseyi Rahman, Chibuzor Ebubedike, Salvador Abduljabar, and Omohogbo Donald Ede.
Others are: Thomas Obire Tobiloba, Olatunbosun...
A notorious major supplier of illicit drugs in Abia state, Chibuike Apolos was on Wednesday, April 21, arrested during an early morning raid of his hideout at Mbausi in Isialangwa North area of the state.
A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, says...
The Rachakonda Cybercrime Police in Hyderabad has arrested a Nigerian football coach and his Indian accomplice on charges of cheating people in the guise of sending valuable gifts and foreign currency on social media.
The suspects identified as Henry Chukwudi Opara, 31, and and Suraj, 29, an auto-rickshaw driver from Uttar Pradesh...
27 suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested by the operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The suspects are: David Promise, Cyril Okodogbe, Taiwo Femi, Jasa Oghenerwede Frank, Adesokan Ibrahim, Femi Emmanuel Phillip, Jimoh Olayinka Alimi, Anene Dominic, Victor Damola, Israel Attah, Alonge...
