Detectives from the Ondo state police command have arrested a serial car snatcher in the state, Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, who claimed to be a senior official of the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps.
Emmanuel who chattered a vehicle from Benin garage in Akure to Asaba, Delta state was said to have drugged the driver of the vehicle and ran away with the car.
It was gathered that Emmanuel chattered the Toyota Sienna Space Bus with registration number KRD 739 DQ to Asaba and on getting to Asaba checked the driver of the vehicle into an hotel to spend the night.
According to the police source, the suspect checked the driver into an hotel in Asaba and drugged him and made away with the Toyota Sienna Space bus belonging to the driver to an unknown destination, while the driver was fast asleep as a result of the drugs applied on him.
The driver reported the incident to the police after all effort to trace the suspect prove abortive and said detectives from the state command swung into action and with the aid of intelligence gathering Emmanuel was arrested in Anambra state.
However the suspect had re-registered the vehicle with plans to sell off the vehicle.
Confirming the arrest of the suspect, the police image maker in the state, Mr Femi Joseph, said the suspect confessed stealing the vehicle, saying that he stole the vehicle to be able to feed his family members.
Joseph said that that the suspect had confessed to the commission of the crime and would soon be arraigned in court after the conclusion of investigation.