A woman and her daughter believed to have stolen a three months old baby at Nairobi's Majengo estate were yesterday arrested in Bungoma, after days of tenacious trail from Nairobi by Busia-based DCI detectives.
The two; 47-yr-old Grace Akinyi Misiani and Nelly Achieng' >>>
>>Misiani, 30 were wanted in connection to a February 15 incident where another one month old infant was stolen from Marachi estate of Busia, only to be found at the house of the 1st suspect's 21-yr-old son, Tony Rogers Ochieng.
In the latter incident, a 27-yr-old woman had at>>
>>>9am left her child soundly sleeping at her Marachi house, proceeding to draw water from a nearby borehole. On returning minutes later, she had been thunderstruck to find an empty warm bed, indicating that her baby had just been stolen.
Attracted by the mother's despondent>>
>>>wails, irate members of the public cornered the young man, rescuing the baby before treating him to an overdose of hot slaps and kicks as they escorted him to the police.
>>notification certificate & a payment receipt from a fictitious health facility-Comcare County Hospital.
Probing into the case, detectives established that the 2nd suspect (Nelly), a KMTC student in Bungoma, & who is married to a health worker at a Busia hospital, had months>>
>>before terminated a 4~months pregnancy, but had let the husband believe he would soon be a father.
With the help of her mother & brother, the trio had stolen the baby boy in the first instance that backfired, before embarking on yet another child theft in Majengo-Nairobi.
Unknown to Nelly and her mother that the Busia team backed up by DCI's Child Protection Unit were hot on their trail, the duo had successfully escaped with the child to Bungoma, stepping in the detectives' snare, necks perfectly in the noose.
It has been established that the>>
>>mother & daughter had been putting pressure on Nelly's husband to send money to clear her "hospital bill" after a safe delivery, thus requiring proof to convince him.
With the two in custody, the rescued child is currently under the care of the Child Protection Unit pending>>
identification and collection by the parents.
Meanwhile, detectives have launched investigations to establish whether a two-yr-old girl living with Nelly & her husband was indeed born to them, after her birth certificate from a Busia hospital also appeared suspicious.
Further, more accomplices are being hunted down in DCI's relentless endeavour to neutralize syndicates involved in child trafficking and sexual abuse & exploitation.
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In a case of outright blackmail by fraudsters who intend to benefit financially from prominent personalities, by tainting their images online & demanding money not to post ‘scandalous’ information about them, detectives have once again arrested serial fraudster, Edgar Obare.
The suspect who has had previous run-ins with the law for publishing false & malicious information regarding individuals and their families is once again a guest of the state. Detectives from the Cybercrime unit have uncovered an underworld network of criminals involving
young ladies recruited by Obare, to stalk prominent personalities in political, business and religious circles for monetary exploitation. They ladies are then coached by Obare, on how to ensnare the victims into their traps then extort unimaginable sums of money from them.
Detectives from the Serious Crimes Unit yesterday recovered over 1,700 bales of stolen Kenya seed company’s, hybrid Maize certified seeds, valued at over Sh7 Million from a private warehouse in Narok town.
In what the serious crimes busters described as a well coordinated syndicate, involving a store supervisor at Narok’s Kenya Seed Company Branch, Brian Meja and two Narok-based unscrupulous traders of Asian origin only known as Yogesh and Gaurav,
they raided a facility leased by Meja a distance from Kenya Seed’s main godown, where the recovery was made. Detectives uncovered that the stolen high yielding seeds of variety 6213, are transported in two Probox vehicles daily and held at Meja’s store temporarily,
Detectives have this evening gunned down a wanted gangster, who was part of an organized criminal gang that has terrorized residents living within Nairobi’s East lands suburbs.
The suspect known as Abbas, attracted the attention of our hawk-eyed detectives on patrol, as he was a pillion passenger on a numberless motorcycle, along Kangundo road. Detectives gave chase and flagged down the motorcycle but instead of pulling over
the pillion passenger drew a firearm and started shooting at our officers indiscriminately. His efforts were however no match to our detectives’ proficiency, since they responded swiftly, killing the suspect on the spot and the rider managing to escape by the skin of his teeth
Relentless efforts by detectives to trace and rescue 38-year-old Caroline Wanjiku Maina, who was reported to have been Kidnapped by unknown persons one week ago, flicked a despondent note yesterday when her body was traced to Kajiado hospital mortuary.
In the February 13 report at Muthangari Police Station, Wanjiku's Toyota Axio car had been found abandoned in Nairobi's Kawangware area near Gatina Primary School, a day after she went missing.
The case was then taken over by DCI Nairobi Area Crime Research and Intelligence>>>
>>>Bureau (CRIB) working alongside Dagoretti-based detectives, who immediately swung into action arresting four suspects; Edwin Otieno Odiwuor, Samwel Okoth Adinda, Stevenson Oduor Ouma and Mercy Gitiri Mongo.
Heightened investigations uncovered that prior to the victim's >>>
Following the brutal killing of a 22-year-old Egerton University student, whose lifeless body was found dumped in the shallow waters of river Subuku in Njoro, Nakuru County on December 7th, last year, detectives have since arrested the suspected perpetrators.
In a murder most foul, Eunice Muthoni Njeri who was a 4th year student at the Njoro based University, was first strangled before her killers dumped her body in river Subuku. This revelation followed an autopsy conducted by Dr. Wangari Wambugu,
at the Egerton University Funeral home on December 10, 2020. Detectives believe that Njeri was murdered by her friends, after one of them suspected that she was engaged in a love affair with her husband. The two friends Diana Njeri Muthiomi and Tamar Wambora Njeru
Ever heard of a dead person literally stealing from another dead victim? That was the case with the Rev Peter Kania Kariuki, the PCEA Secretary-General who died of Covid-19 related complications on July 26, 2020, and Nairobi businessman Amos Ngata Muiruri,
who died after a botched surgery almost four months later on November 22, 2020. Both men died at the Nairobi Hospital.
Hardly a week after Ngata was buried at his farm in Ndunyu Njeru, Nyandarua County, on December 2, 2020,
one of his sons discovered that the father’s telephone which he used for mobile bank transactions when he was alive had suddenly gone dead. The line – 0722720930 - was swiftly activated on another unknown phone.