{"id":1479,"date":"2026-10-26T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/army-arrests-fake-soldier-over-phone-snatching-in-plateau\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:30:31","slug":"army-arrests-fake-soldier-over-phone-snatching-in-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/army-arrests-fake-soldier-over-phone-snatching-in-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Army arrests fake soldier over phone snatching in Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"58.692988929889\">\n<p>Troops of Operation Enduring Peace have arrested a suspected fake soldier in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State for alleged phone snatching and public disturbance.\n<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was confirmed on Monday in an interview with our correspondent in Jos, the state capital, by the Media Information Officer of the Joint Task Force, Operation Enduring Peace, Capt. Chinonso Oteh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it is true. That one happened in the Jos North area,\u201d Oteh affirmed.\n<\/p>\n<p>He further said the troops arrested the suspect, identified as Salim Idris, at about 11:30 am on October 25 at Filin Sukuwa in Jos North LGA.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the arrest followed credible intelligence about the suspect\u2019s alleged criminal activities in the area. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He said the troops trailed the suspect and apprehended him while dressed in a military camouflage uniform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary interrogation reportedly revealed that the suspect had been involved in a series of alleged criminal activities, including public disturbance, phone snatching and impersonation of security agencies,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that the suspect is currently in the custody of troops while\u00a0 further investigation continues\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#97e3fff2f2f3fee3f8e5d7e7e2f9f4fff9f0b9f4f8fa\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"24504c4141404d504b566454514a474c4a430a474b49\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops of Operation Enduring Peace have arrested a suspected fake soldier in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State for alleged phone snatching and public disturbance. The arrest was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}