A suspected gang leader in Murang’a was lured out of his hideout to captivity by a woman officer who posed as a sex worker.
The suspected gangster is said to have been the spearhead in an organised criminal gang that has been terrorising area residents.
According to Murang’a South Police Commander Alexander Shikondi, a female officer attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kiambu county, posed as a sex worker and called the suspect, introducing herself as a woman he had met in Kenol town.
“Our detectives were closely following the conversation and though he first hesitated, the womanising weakness in him made him drop his guard and he agreed to show up in town for a meeting, warning that he would not be staying long,” Shikondi said.
True to his word, the gangster showed up in town and upon seeing the chocolate-faced slender but shapely woman he could not resist volunteering to buy a few drinks for the undercover police officer.
“He forgot that he was a fugitive and led the woman into a nearby bar and ordered for a few drinks and while they were on their second drink each when three officers showed up and cuffed him,” Shikondi added.
The suspect is now in custody and he will defend himself at the Kigumo courthouse.