During the course of a two-day operation against car theft syndicates, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have taken eight people into custody and recovered five vehicles that are thought to have been stolen.
The first arrest of the day was Timothy Ndegwa, who was apprehended at his Makongeni Estate residence in Thika, Kiambu County, on Friday. Upon his detention, the registration plate number KBR 957C was found.
The second suspect, George Kimani Wangechi, was apprehended along Kenyatta Road in Juja with a white Toyota Fielder that is thought to have been stolen after Ndegwa directed the detectives to him.
Subsequently, the two accused admitted to working together in stealing a red Isuzu D-Max, which they subsequently sold to a buyer in Nyeri with the help of another accomplice, Stephen Kamau Maganjo.
“After investigative interviewing of the suspects, a fourth accomplice, Boniface Gitemengo Gachanja, was cornered and arrested within Githurai, who led the sleuths to Limuru’s Flyover area where his partner in crime Josphat Ikua Mwangi was arrested, Mwangi was found in possession of a suspected stolen Toyota Corolla fitted with registration no. KBA 163Y. The vehicle was recovered at detained at DCI offices. Later this evening, another of their accomplices, Alois Tabu Ojiambo, was traced to and arrested at Kariobangi,” read the statement.
While operating the car in Naromoru, the aforementioned buyer, Antony Wanjohi Theuri, was apprehended and taken into police custody.
The DCI concluded the Friday operation by noting in a statement to newsrooms that two more of the arrested suspects were apprehended after the arrested ones were subjected to extra strain during questioning.
“The officers ambushed a second renowned suspect, Charles Kung’u Kamau, driving a numberless vehicle make Toyota Probox silver in colour. Search from its Chassis revealed its registration as KBV 958J. Kung’u who has no few antics after occasional confrontations with the law managed to dart away leaving the vehicle, but efforts are on high gear to have him in police custody,” added the DCI.
