A 50-year-old man identified as Joseph Godfrey has been arrested by the operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command.
According to The PUNCH, Godfrey was reported to be a specialist in luring unsuspecting female job seekers to a hotel and sexually assaulting them.
As obtained via a press statement from the spokesman for the command, Asinim Butswat, the suspect was nabbed by the operatives of SWAT in Yenagoa on Monday.
It was said that Godfrey frequently pretended to be a member of the Government House personnel in Yenagoa while offering his victims employment.
He was apprehended after one of the young ladies raised the alarm about his supposed misleading deed.
The statement read, “Operatives of SWAT, Bayelsa State Command, have arrested one Joseph Godfrey ‘m’ 50 years for luring unsuspecting female job-seekers to a hotel and sexually assaulting them.
“The suspect usually disguised as a staff of Government House, Yenagoa, and lured his victims with the promise of job opportunity and employment.
“He ran out of luck on 10th October 2022 at about 13hours when one of the girls raised the alarm and he was arrested at Opolo, Yenagoa.”
The police command said the suspect was being interrogated and an investigation was in progress.
