An Abuja-based Disc Jockey, Raymond Terver, also known as DJ Ice, has been arrested by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) for allegedly buying expensive drinks and goods using fake bank alerts.
The police revealed that the suspect sold the items through intermediaries to hide his identity.
Parading the suspect in Abuja on Tuesday, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said DJ Ice ran out of luck after he purchased drinks from a hotel in August using a fake alert.
Adejobi added that the suspects who started the crime in June 2024 made over N8m which he used to purchase DJ equipment.
He said: “The suspect was arrested in August 2024 for purchasing goods using fake payment alerts. He admitted to starting this scheme in June 2024, ordering expensive drinks, particularly Hennessy XO, from the ‘For You’ Hotel and Restaurant in Jabi, Abuja.
“He would send fake payment receipts via WhatsApp, arrange for a dispatch rider to collect the drinks, and then send them through intermediaries to conceal his identity. Terver revealed he generated the fake alerts using the Paint app on his computer.
“The restaurant noticed discrepancies in their inventory and reported the issue to the IRT, which led to his arrest. After thorough investigation, he has confessed to making over 8 million from this fraud, which he used to buy DJ equipment.”
Addressing reporters, DJ Ice said he took to crime because of the hardship in the country.
He said: “The reason I decided to go this line is because of our hardship, sir. I was eager to make money and get DJ equipment for myself. I have been in my line of business for up to 15 years. And all this while, I have been looking for ways to get money, to get equipment. I bought them for about 5 million. I had not started using the equipment before I was arrested. I bought it in August.
I feel very sorry for myself. “
Narrating how he perpetrated the crime, he said: “I went through Google, and I found this restaurant and I chatted them up, and then if they had so-so-so goods, liquor in particular, they said yes, and then I clicked another, fabricated a receipt to my computer on Pint app, and then sent it to them, a confirmed payment, and sent them, asked if I would come over to pick it up, it will be delivered.
“I said okay, I will send a dispatch rider to get it, and they said okay, I sent the dispatch rider, they gave him the goods, and that is how I did it”.
Also paraded was a suspect accused of killing a police officer in Ogun State, Kayode Johnson also known as Baddoo.
Adejobi said the suspect was arrested on June 12, 2024.
He said: “The suspect confessed to being the gang leader to a band of armed robbers who operated in the Ikorodu /Ijebu-Ode axis. He stated that they made away with the Policeman’s AK47 rifle after killing him. The said AK47 rifle was later recovered from one of the gang members by Lagos State Police Command.
Upon his arrest, Two locally made pistols, 4 live cartridges and one cutter were recovered.”
He stated m in recent months, police officers have arrested 295-armed robbery suspects, 186 suspected kidnappers, and 1,575 individuals for various other crimes.
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