{"id":2419,"date":"2025-10-17T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:18:18","slug":"police-arrest-two-suspected-car-thieves-recover-stolen-toyota-corolla-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/police-arrest-two-suspected-car-thieves-recover-stolen-toyota-corolla-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest two suspected car thieves, recover stolen Toyota Corolla in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kano State Police Command has arrested two men suspected of stealing a car and recovered a stolen Toyota Corolla.<br \/><br \/>Police spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said the suspects \u2014 Michael Jatau, 39, and Haruna Aliyu Muhammad, 21 \u2014 were caught by officers of the Command\u2019s Special Intervention Squad (SIS) on October 13, 2025, around 11:25 a.m.<br \/><br \/>In a statement on Thursday, he said the suspects were found with a 2012 Toyota Corolla, dark ash in colour, with registration number KRD-13-FW, believed to have been stolen.<br \/><br \/><br \/>\u201cPreliminary investigations revealed that the suspects snatched the vehicle in Abuja and brought it to Kano with the intent to sell it,\u201d Kiyawa said.<br \/><br \/>He added that the two suspects confessed to the crime and would be charged to court after investigations are completed.<br \/><br \/>The Commissioner of Police, CP Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, PhD, praised the officers for their professionalism and thanked the public for their continued cooperation, especially through the community-based crime-fighting initiative, Operation Kukan Kura.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe Command appreciates the public for their support and urges residents to keep sharing useful information that will help fight crime,\u201d the police commissioner stated.<br \/><br \/>The Command also urged citizens to report any suspicious activity to the nearest police station.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State Police Command has arrested two men suspected of stealing a car and recovered a stolen Toyota Corolla. Police spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said the suspects \u2014 Michael Jatau, 39, and Haruna Aliyu Muhammad, 21 \u2014 were caught by officers of the Command\u2019s Special Intervention Squad (SIS) on October 13, 2025, around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police arrest two suspected car thieves, recover<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police arrest two suspected car thieves, recover stolen Toyota Corolla in Kano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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