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A Nigerian, 53-year-old Abdullahi Shuaibu has been arrested in New York for robbing four banks in Manhattan during his lunch break.
He was arrested on Monday by NYPD officers on two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery.
Local media reports say the banks he robbed are within walking distance from his office at the Foreign Press Center inside the US Mission to the United Nations, which is across the street from the UN building.
During the most recent incident on Monday, Shuaibu walked into an HSBC on Third Ave. and E. 40th St. around 2:30 p.m. and passed a note demanding cash to the teller.
The teller did not read the note and asked him for identification.
He, however, instructed the teller to read the note, keeping his hand in his jacket pocket while simulating a gun, police said.
He reportedly was on a robbery spree for two months. He was caught when a retired police officer recognised him from a surveillance image, and reported to the NYPD.
Police arrested him later in the day when he returned to the UN.
Shuaibu was an employee of the News Agency of Nigeria and served as its UN correspondent between 2006 and 2009.
The agency, however, terminated his appointment in April 2013 following his refusal to resume work in Nigeria at the expiration of the duty tour and extended period which he requested to enable him to complete an academic programme.
He was arrested on Monday by NYPD officers on two counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery.
Local media reports say the banks he robbed are within walking distance from his office at the Foreign Press Center inside the US Mission to the United Nations, which is across the street from the UN building.
During the most recent incident on Monday, Shuaibu walked into an HSBC on Third Ave. and E. 40th St. around 2:30 p.m. and passed a note demanding cash to the teller.
The teller did not read the note and asked him for identification.
He, however, instructed the teller to read the note, keeping his hand in his jacket pocket while simulating a gun, police said.
He reportedly was on a robbery spree for two months. He was caught when a retired police officer recognised him from a surveillance image, and reported to the NYPD.
Police arrested him later in the day when he returned to the UN.
Shuaibu was an employee of the News Agency of Nigeria and served as its UN correspondent between 2006 and 2009.
The agency, however, terminated his appointment in April 2013 following his refusal to resume work in Nigeria at the expiration of the duty tour and extended period which he requested to enable him to complete an academic programme.