“Mad man” arrested with 22 ATM cards, mobile devices

One Lanrewaju Jaiyeola is being held in police custody after he was arrested with 22 Automated Teller Machine Cards and other mobile devices

A Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command arrested the suspect who appears to be “mad” in the Victoria Island area of Lagos.

According to the police, Jaiyeola initially appeared sane as he responded well to questions before he started talking illogically later on.

“When we sighted him, he appeared like a mentally-ill man, but we invited him for interrogation. He responded normally to all our enquiries,” a member of the Squad told Punch.

“A few minutes into the interrogation, he started straying from the normal course of our enquiries and was not making sense at all. This raised further curiosity and we decided to search his backpack.

In the backpack were “22 ATM cards, one Nokia phone, a Blackberry, a power bank, several bank tellers of recent bank transactions, and lots of invoices hidden in pieces of papers”.

Eight of the 22 ATM cards, with different names and issued by different banks, were found to be valid still.

RRS Commander, Olatunji Disu, who confirmed the arrest said the suspect had been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.