Police detectives attached to the anti-robbery squad of the Lagos
State Police Command, western Nigeria, have arrested a woman for
allegedly stealing a gold chain worth N650,000, and hiding it in her
private part.
P.M.NEWS learnt from police sources at SARS that the
woman, identified as Tessy Emovon, 26, allegedly stole the chain from
her boyfriend, Cosmas Odijie, 26, last Sunday in a hotel located at
Ipodo Market, off Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, after giving him a
sleeping drug.
Investigations revealed that Odijie had earlier given Tessy N3,000, to spend the night with her.
The
police claimed that Tessy gave Odijie a drug called Rohypnol when he
complained of being tired. She assured him that the drug will boost his
energy and sex drive. Rohypnol is a banned drug in the USA. It is in the
same class with Ecstasy, ketamine, LSD and ephedrine. The main effect
of Rohypnol is to make a person sedated, euphoric, uninhibited. The
person may slur his speech and look sleepy.
But he may also encounter
one of the less desirable effects : weakness, headache, difficulty
breathing, nausea, unconsciousness, confusion, difficulty seeing
clearly.
Odijie told the police in his statement that after taking
the drug, he slept off and woke up around 3.30a.m. on Monday to
discover that his gold chain was missing.
“After regaining
consciousness, I discovered that my gold chain was missing and when I
challenged Tessy, she denied stealing the chain. This led to argument
and I had to inform the manager of the hotel,” he told the police.
The
manager reported the incident to the police at Area ‘F’ police
division, Ikeja, and Tessy was arrested and detained for two days.
She
was arrested again by SARS officers as she was released from detention
on the third day following a report by Martins Odijie, 33, elder brother
to Cosmas, who told detectives that he actually owned the stolen gold
chain.
The SARS officers took her to their office at the headquarters of the Lagos Police Command for further interrogation.
During
interrogation, she confessed to the crime, adding that she wrapped the
chain in a tissue paper which she inserted in her private part.
She
told the police that the chain was still in her private part. Following
her revelation, some female police officers from SARS accompanied her
to the hotel where she removed the chain from her private part.
A police source confirmed that she would be charged to court soon for stealing.
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