3 Nigerians Arrested With Fake Documents, $53k Cash In A Stolen Maserati In Chicago.

Three Nigerian men arrested in Chicago in what was described as a stolen car packed with counterfeit passports, drivers’ licenses, and cash, are back on the street, after they faced relatively minor charges.

Mayowa Balogun, Danteni Tijani and Dolapo Badmus, were picked up on January 23, in a Maserati SUV which came back stolen out of Ohio. Police alleged all were carrying counterfeit passports and driver’s licenses, mostly from Great Britain.

According to Nbcchicago, the investigators said they also found nearly $40,000 in the car’s glove compartment, and over $13,000 in a coat elsewhere in the car.

Nevertheless, Balogun and Badmus, were charged only with possession of altered documents, a class 4 felony which allowed them to receive I-bonds and walk out of court.

The driver, Tijani, initially faced an additional charge of possession of a stolen motor vehicle. But that charge was later dropped.

Still, when Tijani appeared last week before Judge William Raines, when his attorney sought to have his bond reduced, exactly the opposite happened.

Raines set Tijani’s bond at $100,000, and ordered that he be placed on electronic monitoring if he managed to post that amount. Which he did, with the aid of a friend, less than an hour later.

Authorities were at a loss to explain why the charges were seemingly light despite the allegations that the three had obtained passports with their own pictures from Great Britain.

In court, it was presented that the documents had been obtained in short order for relatively little cost in Chicago. A spokesman for State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said prosecutors had insufficient evidence to make charges pertaining to the stolen car stick.

And that they had charged the document offenses to the fullest extent possible. The three are scheduled to appear in court again later this month. 

Source:
http://www.nairaplus.com/2018/05/3-nigerians-arrested-with-fake.html

Ralph Potter

arrested @ topic

Beer is availaible @ cheap price...

These are the youths that gives Nigerians that struggle a bad name

Hmmmm

How can PMB be said to be responsible for this na?

Watch as Nairaland PDP apologists and compulsive wailers find their way around to blame it on the president. Most shocking is the fact that they succeed in their destructive effort due to the depth of intellectual laziness which our pple suffer from

Too bad

Naija!!!! Why

See them!

I only read the title so I'm basing my questions on it
Questions

1. Who are the three commendable Nigerians that did the arresting?

2. Who is this "In USA" that was arrested by those 3 vigilant Nigerians and where is "In USA" from?

3. Why is this "In USA" using fake documents?

We the lazy yoots of naija here in warri don't know them

What are there names?

If you know, You know.

Those guys are pickers hence the reason for the fake documents and passports. That huge sum of money doesn't belong to them, It's a newly picked fund. The US police will investigate but will never find nothing like drugs but just the picked fund, fake passport and documents. That's their hustle.


Like I said earlier, If you know, you know.

I don tire for these people....never get caught that's the motto

Nigerians sef. we must always show our ugly ynash.

Afo......

Cant the Yorubas in England and USA stop tarnishing our image outside the country?


As long as Fuji stars are celebrated in Yoruba land then such social crimes will remain part of the culture

Na wa oo

Them!