{"id":77114,"date":"2025-10-22T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77114"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:26:22","slug":"notorious-phone-thief-arrested-in-ikwa-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/22\/notorious-phone-thief-arrested-in-ikwa-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Phone Thief Arrested in Ikwa Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A man identified as Masahudu has been arrested for allegedly sneaking into a neighbour\u2019s room to steal phones in Ikwa community, near Zuba, in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>A resident, Dantani Ibrahim, said the suspect entered the room around 10:37 p.m. on Monday, where some tenants had kept their phones to charge during a power outage. He was spotted by a neighbour who raised the alarm.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who attempted to flee, was caught and beaten by residents before vigilantes intervened.<\/p>\n<p>A vigilante member, Garba Saleh, described Masahudu as a \u201cnotorious phone thief,\u201d saying he was arrested just two days earlier in Unguwar London for a similar offence.<\/p>\n<p>He was handed over to security operatives in Zuba, while the stolen phones were recovered and returned to their owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; A man identified as Masahudu has been arrested for allegedly sneaking into a neighbour\u2019s room to steal phones in Ikwa community, near Zuba, in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT. A resident, Dantani Ibrahim, said the suspect entered the room around 10:37 p.m. on Monday, where some tenants had kept their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77116,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114\/revisions\/77116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}