{"id":82403,"date":"2026-02-02T08:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82403"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T08:53:46","slug":"police-arraign-man-over-alleged-vehicle-theft-in-ekiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/02\/police-arraign-man-over-alleged-vehicle-theft-in-ekiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arraign Man Over Alleged Vehicle Theft in Ekiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ekiti State Police Command has arraigned a 30-year-old man, Adebayo Deji, before a Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court in Ado-Ekiti over alleged vehicle theft.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was charged with conspiracy and stealing, following allegations that he and others still at large stole vehicles in 2025 at Iluomoba-Ekiti, within the Ode-Ekiti Magisterial District.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor, Inspector Akinwale Oriyomi, told the court that the offence contravenes Section 421 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State (2021).<\/p>\n<p>Defence counsel, Barrister A. A. Alaro, applied for bail, assuring the court that the defendant would not abscond.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun granted bail in the sum of \u20a6200,000 with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case to March 3 for hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Ekiti State Police Command has arraigned a 30-year-old man, Adebayo Deji, before a Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court in Ado-Ekiti over alleged vehicle theft. The defendant was charged with conspiracy and stealing, following allegations that he and others still at large stole vehicles in 2025 at Iluomoba-Ekiti, within the Ode-Ekiti Magisterial District. Prosecutor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82403","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\/82403","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=82403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82405,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82403\/revisions\/82405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}