The Kozhikode City Special Action Group and the Nallalam police arrested Sabu, 51, alias ‘Spider Sabu’ in Kozhikode on Wednesday.
The team had cast a net for the criminal following a series of burglary cases in the district and had tracked him to Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka where he was living for a while in a pseudonym. They traced him to Bengaluru and followed him back to Kerala before arresting him in Kozhikode.
The District Police Chief (Kozhikode City) Rajpal Meena had directed the Special Action group led by Deputy Commissioner K.E. Baiju to track former criminals who could have been responsible for some of the recent crimes. The group zeroed in on Sabu based on his modus operandi and evidence collected from a burglary site in Nallalam in June. Once arrested, he confessed to several burglaries he had committed inside and outside the State over the last few years.
