A police officer based in Mombasa is among four suspects who were arrested by detectives attached to Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in possession of illegal firearms in Kilimani, Nairobi County.
Chris Mwangangi and Lucia Wanjiku were driving along the Arwings Khodek and Ring Road junction within Kilimani, when they were intercepted by the kilimani-based detectives.
According to DCI,detectives, who were on routine patrol, became suspicious after coming across a black land cruiser V8 motor vehicle with no front number plate, prompting them to immediately flag it down.
“Upon a thorough search of the vehicle, detectives managed to recover one Ceska Pistol with its Serial number erased, one Revolver Pistol and an unidentified frontal Plate Number,” stated detectives.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the driver found with the Motor vehicle wasn’t the actual owner. The vehicle instead belonged to one Jeff Maina, a close friend of his.
“The suspect spoke to the owner informing him that he had been arrested and had been taken to Kilimani police station. This prompted the owner to drive into the station shortly afterwards, after which he was arrested and a quick search conducted inside the vehicle he had arrived in, a Mercedes Benz,” said detectives.
Sleuths recovered two police handcuffs, one Ceska Magazine loaded with 7 rounds of 9mm ammunitions, one police pocket phone and several Identification Cards from the car.
The suspects were placed in custody pending investigations, while the recovered firearms were handed over to our ballistics experts for examination.
The police officer is believed to have given the handcuffs to the suspects.