{"id":64800,"date":"2025-04-25T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64800"},"modified":"2025-04-25T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:49:32","slug":"police-foil-robbery-recover-stolen-suv-in-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/25\/police-foil-robbery-recover-stolen-suv-in-30-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Foil Robbery, Recover Stolen SUV in 30 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lightning-fast operation by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has led to the recovery of a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser SUV just 30 minutes after it was snatched at gunpoint in Garki, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The black SUV, with registration number ABC 797, was forcefully taken around 8:35 PM on Wednesday, April 23, by five armed men dressed in black.<\/p>\n<p>The assailants, who fired shots to scatter onlookers, sped off in the vehicle belonging to Alhaji Nasiru Aminu.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a distress call, the Divisional Police Officer escalated the alert to the Command\u2019s Control Room.<\/p>\n<p>The Rapid Response Squad was swiftly deployed, while surveillance teams led by Maitama DPO CSP Altine Daniel and supported by the Police Technical Intelligence Unit launched a real-time tracking operation.<\/p>\n<p>With pressure closing in, the robbers abandoned the SUV under Banex Bridge and fled in a second vehicle. By 9:00 PM, the police had recovered the stolen SUV intact.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found 9mm ammunition in the car, prompting deeper investigations into a robbery syndicate suspected to be behind recent attacks in Wuse and Maitama. A manhunt is ongoing to track down the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Commending his men, FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ajao S. Adewale, urged residents to install tracking devices in their vehicles and praised the coordination that led to the swift success.<\/p>\n<p>This latest breakthrough underscores the growing effectiveness of police intelligence and the persistent threat posed by organized carjacking gangs in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A lightning-fast operation by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has led to the recovery of a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser SUV just 30 minutes after it was snatched at gunpoint in Garki, Abuja. The black SUV, with registration number ABC 797, was forcefully taken around 8:35 PM on Wednesday, April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64802,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64800\/revisions\/64802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}