Three suspects believed to be part of a network of criminals stealing electronic devices in Nakuru town, mostly mobile phones, have been arrested following an operation by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
The three were arrested in a hideout in Nakuru town, said to be doubling up as a phone repair shop according to police.
During the operation, 294 mobile phones, one laptop and a Central processing unit (CPU) were recovered by the sleuths.
According to the County Criminal Investigations officer Anthony Sunguti, detectives had launched an operation to track down the gang following numerous reports by residents that their phones had been snatched within the Nakuru Central Business District and its environs.
“We’ve been getting complaints from members of the public that their phones have been stolen by bad guys…so we crafted a team and sent them to the field and luckily as they were carrying out their operation, there was one phone that had just been snatched. As we were tracking the phone, it led us to their home and led us to this cache,” he said.
The three told police they were technicians and that their phones were legally under their care for repair.
