Yesterday, the New York Post reported that a former Nigerian United Nations worker, Abdullahi Shuaibu had been arrested in connection with 4 bank robberies in New York.
Shuaibu was said to have walked into banks and handed cashiers notes saying “Give me $5,000, Thank you,” and threatening to shoot if the cashiers in question failed to comply. On Monday, his robbery attempt at a HSBC bank failed when he passed a note demanding cash to the teller, who did not read the note and asked for identification instead. Shuaibu then threatened to shoot if he wasn’t cooperated with while gesturing to his inner pocket. That was when the teller in question, Rani Ahme made her way into the back office to alert her boss and found that Shuaibu was gone by the time she returned.
Shuaibu, 53, was arrested later that afternoon outside the US Mission to the United Nations, where he’s been working out of the building’s Foreign Press Center as a State Department-credentialed reporter for the PanAfrican News Agency after a police officer recognized Shuaibu from surveillance photos of the alleged bank robbery that the NYPD circulated last month. Following his arrest, Shuaibu confessed to the robberies and claimed he spent all the stolen money on bills while he has been charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery in the Manhattan Criminal Court.
Source NYPost & Sahara Reporters