Five young men have been arrested in Adamawa State over alleged theft of copper cables and gas cylinder.
Operatives of the state command of the Nigeria Police Force arrested the men aged between 17 and 29 years.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Suleiman Nguroje who confirmed the development on Thursday, said the arrests resulted from efforts to check crime in and around the state.
The five suspects are Abdulmunini Muhammad,18 years old; Ibrahim Ahmed, 18; Mubarak Abubakar, 29; Mahmud Ibrahim, 18; and Isaac Jonah, 17.
They were identified as residents of Malamre and Wauro Jabbe in Yola North Local Government Area.
While Abdulmuni Muhammed allegedly broke into a house around their community and stole a gas cylinder, Ibrahim Ahmed is charged with carting copper cables from a filling station and confessing that they usually born the cables and sell the wires to scavengers.
The trio of Mubarak Abubakar, Mahmud Ibrahim and Isaac Jonah allegedly invaded a filling station, broke into a building at the station through the ceiling and stole copper cables, with intention of selling to scavengers.
The mention of scavengers by the suspects calls to mind a recent outlaw of scavenging by the state government.
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri had last month paced a ban on scavenging, prompting the state Police Command to declare that it would be all out to fight scavengers.
