Police at Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, arrested three monkeys and their minders for allegedly using the monkeys to breach public peace and to steal.

But the monkeys shocked the police and resisted being forced into the station. They stood at the entrance where they continued their usual demonstration and acrobatic displays.

The policemen who arrested them became angry and threatened to shoot them.

Before the monkeys were arrested on Friday, a victim, Nurudeen Idowu complained to the police that when he passed through a crowd watching the monkeys, he lost N5,700 he had on him.

Another victim, claimed she lost N22,000 when she joined the crowd to watch the monkeys display, lamenting that she could not tell her husband how she lost the money.

A trader said his N9,000 was stolen as he watched the monkeys during the week.