{"id":66277,"date":"2025-05-22T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66277"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:28:02","slug":"police-nabs-man-driving-stolen-neighbours-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/22\/police-nabs-man-driving-stolen-neighbours-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Nabs Man Driving Stolen Neighbour\u2019s Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu<\/p>\n<p>A routine police patrol in Lagos turned dramatic when officers from the Ebute Ero Division arrested Jackson Abraham in possession of a stolen car reported missing in Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lagos Police Spokesman, Ben Hundeyin, the suspect was intercepted while driving an ash-coloured Mitsubishi Space vehicle that had been stolen from a parking lot. Shockingly, Abraham and the car owner live at the same address.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations confirmed that Abraham took the vehicle without the owner&#8217;s knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The car was recovered in good condition and returned to the station, while the owner, who had earlier filed a report in Ogun State, has been contacted and is cooperating with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham is currently in custody as plans are underway to transfer him and the vehicle back to Ogun State, where the theft was first reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, reiterated his commitment to tackling vehicle theft across the state.<\/p>\n<p>He urged residents to remain alert and report suspicious activity, stressing the importance of community support in fighting crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A routine police patrol in Lagos turned dramatic when officers from the Ebute Ero Division arrested Jackson Abraham in possession of a stolen car reported missing in Ogun State. According to the Lagos Police Spokesman, Ben Hundeyin, the suspect was intercepted while driving an ash-coloured Mitsubishi Space vehicle that had been stolen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":66278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66277","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\/66277","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=66277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66279,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66277\/revisions\/66279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}