Laptop thief grabbed

Sylvester Yakubu, an 18-year-old second year student of Nakpanduri Senior High School located in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo district of the Northern Region, is in the firm grips of the police for stealing laptops meant for distribution to various institutions in the area.

The suspect was arrested upon a tipoff after the headmaster of the Nakpanduri DA Junior High School detected that a number of the laptops assigned to his outfit were missing.

He immediately lodged a formal complaint with the police, leading to the arrest of the suspect who confessed stealing two of the laptops from the headmaster’s office earlier and attempted selling them to unsuspecting residents in the area.

According to the facts of the case, the police acted upon a tipoff that the suspect was in possession of some laptops that fit the description given by the headmaster.

Some plain clothed personnel were detailed to his house to feign interest in buying the items and in the process intercepted him together with the stolen laptops and verified that they were indeed the ones that had been stolen days earlier.

The suspect who admitted committing the offence in his cautioned statement disclosed that he broke into the headmaster’s office through the roof and made away with the two laptops with the intention of selling them.

He was subsequently arraigned before a Nalerigu Magistrate Court presided over by Robert Agbleze on charges of unlawful entry and stealing and remanded in police custody to reappear on April 9, 2013.

His plea was however not taken, as the investigator told the court he was conducting further investigations into the matter to establish his culpability in the offence.