"If they weren't stupid, we'd be out of business"

That’s what a colleague pointed out to me on the steps of Stamford’s Criminal Court one morning as the two of us were leaving the Monday arraignment session and I’d complained, “our clients are so stupid!”

With that introduction, and following up on last weeks’ initial report on the bust of a credit card/stolen check thief on Greenwich Avenue, I present chapter two of Tales of the Nigerian Prince— the saga of Onyedikachi Chukwujekwu Agu “of New Rochelle”

The investigation began July 15 when undercover officers with the organized retail crime unit detained Agu and three other suspects at a bank on Greenwich Avenue. Agu prompted officers' suspicions in part by donning a face mask and hooded sweatshirt in 90-degree weather before walking to an ATM vestibule while constantly looking over both shoulders, according to an arrest warrant.

A search of the car he was driving turned up more than $6,000 in cash; debit, credit and ID cards in other people's names; check deposit slips, some only partially completed; and numerous passport-style photographs of different individuals, the warrant says.