City socialite Charles Olim alias Sipapa is connected to 12 more robberies committed between 2014 and 2021, according to the latest Deoxyribonucleic Acid Analysis (DNA) conducted by the Directorate of forensic science in the Uganda Police Force-UPF.
He was arrested on Tuesday last by the Crime intelligence in collaboration with the Criminal Investigations Directorate. Sipapa appeared before the Makindye Grade One Magistrate’s court on Friday last week together with his wife, Shamirah Nakiyimba on six counts of aggravated robbery.
This was after US$429,000 and other valuables robbed from the home of a South Sudanese national Jacob Arok were found inside Sipapa’s home at Kityo close, Buwate, in Kira Municipality, Wakiso district. Detectives and the crime intelligence team traced an iCloud signal of one of the four iPhones robbed from Arok’s home to Sipapa’s residence.
The detectives go to know that was Sipapa’s residency for the residents. Upon arrest, police drew blood samples from Sipapa for DNA testing. Findings from the DNA have since connected him to robberies and burglaries that were recorded in among other areas Ntinda, Kiwatule, Bugolobi, Kabalagala and Kira road. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, says that when the forensic experts run tests of Sipapa’s blood samples, they noticed that they marched fingerprints lifted at various robbery and burglary scenes.
In his statement at Kabalagala police station on August 29, Arok says that he and his family members woke to an open house in the wee hours of the morning. He explains that when they switched on the lights, they noticed that the bag containing the money, a flat television screen, four iPhones, two Apple laptops, a Dell laptop and jewelry belonging to his wife was missing.
When crime intelligence and detectives searched Sipapa’s home, they recovered the four iPhones, two apple laptops, and USD70,000 which Nakiyimba allegedly attempted to hide in her husband’s shoes. Enanga said police is going to add all the evidence collected using DNA analysis to the current file so that the charges can be amended and heard at ago.
Sipapa shot into the limelight in 2014 when he showed up in clubs splashing money on revelers. He later resorted to promoting music. One of the prominent artists he promoted is Joseph Mayanja alias, Dr. Jose Chameleon. But the duo later fell out when Chameleon publicly accused Sipapa of being a serial robber.
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