Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command have arrested Bullet, an Alsatian dog for alleged robbery in the Ladipo, Oshodi area of the state.

The state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi paraded the dog at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday.

Inohimi said two other robbery suspects, Odunade Olajide and Adeniyi Adisa, sent the dog after their victims.

The CP said after dispossessing the victims of cash and other valuables, the suspects would speed away with the dog on a motorcycle.

He said the men were arrested while attempting to rob a lady ofbher valuables.

Inohimi said the victim raised an alarm and the suspects were apprehended.

He said, “On September 5, 2017, two local criminals, who specialised in robbing people by sending a dog to attack them, were arrested. The suspects would command the Alsatian dog to attack a victim. The dog, in response to the command, would pounce on the person. Gripped with fear, the person would hand over all his belonging to the gang.”

But the suspects denied the allegations, saying they had only gone to buy dog feed when the woman raised a false alarm.

Olajide said the woman eventually found her phone where she kept it, adding that by then it was late as SARS operatives had arrested them.

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