WHEN THE DEAL IS TOO GOOD...
The public is hereby WARNED never to buy any electronic gadget including laptops, mobile phones, TV sets etc from an individual or a dealer who has no fixed Physical Address, that is, identifiable trading premises with requisite authorization>>>
>>documents that are conspicuously displayed, including licenses, permits & other local and/or national approvals.
Whenever buying, insist on issuance of a receipt clearly itemizing the particulars of the bought gadget.
Always keep the receipt or secure it electronically by>>
>>>photographing and archiving it in a reliable system.
It is Risky & Dangerous to buy any electronic device from suspicious outlets.
Most are those who buy stolen items from armed gangsters who have violently robbed innocent citizens, and in the process killed or maimed them.
DON'T buy a device of a fellow Murdered or Maimed Kenyan.
When detectives forensically investigate & find you in possession of such said devices, by the time it is established that you were not involved in the crime, you may have suffered immensely.
Being found with suspected>>
>>stolen property, you suffer immediate consequences of the actual criminal, which may escalate to Death sentences.
We further urge electronic dealers to seize the ICT technology & ensure they mark, at the counter, every electronic gadget bought by a customer as a value added>>
>>incentive with indelible initials as may please the customer for security purposes.
This makes it hard for criminals to hawk it & easier for investigative agencies to track & identify.
Equally, owners can mark in the same manner through various private experts in the market.
In case of any doubt that you may be harbouring any gadget of suspicious source, please and in confidence report at any Police Station or DCI Office.
Note: The DCI had given this caution in October 6, 2019.
#confideindci. Call 0800 722 203 to speak anonymously to the DCI. This is a toll-free number and is available 24/7. Usiogope!!
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In DCI's bid to bring to book all those who got involved in the gruesome murder of the late Caroline Wanjiku Maina, the investigating team yesterday arrested two more suspects at Kebuye village in Kisii County.
Acting on forensic intelligence, the team drawn from the Crime >>>
>>Research and Intelligence Bureau, Special Service Unit, DCI Dagoretti and their Kisii counterparts, proceeded to the said village within Suneka sub-county, where two mobile phones previously paired to the deceased's simcards were tracked down.
The first phone make Samsung>>>
>>Galaxy A20S was traced to a matatu tout with Safeline Sacco Kibera-Nairobi, one Justus Nyamete Manyura alias Dennis Ongingo.
A 17-yr-old male student at St. Lawrence Nyabieyo Secondary School was arrested with the second phone make Oppo, which had also paired a third simcard>>
In a most unfortunate incident that occurred in Kisumu at the Kisumu Bus Park today morning, an unknown assailant attacked a traffic Police officer as he was busy controlling traffic, disarmed him and went on a shooting frenzy killing two people on the spot.
Five other people including the traffic officer, were seriously injured in the 8am incident, that left travelers at the Kisumu bus stage scampering for dear life. The assailant, who was allegedly dressed in a balaclava only revealing his eyes had attacked the officer from behind
pushing him on the tarmac. A struggle then ensued and the assailant managed to unholster the firearm from the officer’s waist, chambered a cartridge and shot him at the pelvic, the bullet exiting through the stomach. With the firearm a semi automatic Ceska Pistol in his hands
Today the Cabinet Secretary-Information and Communication Technology Hon Joe Mucheru graced the handover occasion of an assortment of forensic investigations equipment donated to the DCI by the Federal Republic of Germany through it's embassy in Kenya.
Specialized crime investigation kits & dozens of video & photographic cameras with accessories formed part of the over Shs 27M worth of donations, besides three furnished simulation rooms the embassy has developed at NPS Training College-Kiganjo, DCI Academy & DCI Headquarters.
Receiving the aid from the German Ambassador to Kenya H.E. Thomas Wimmer, Hon Mucheru lauded the good gesture by the German government, recalling the many times its cooperation had facilitated training for the Directorate's detectives both locally and abroad.
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.
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.
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,