Detectives drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a househelp who reportedly broke her employer’s safe and stole several valuable items.
DCI officers, in a statement on Friday afternoon, revealed that the hunt for the househelp began on March 11, after the suspect’s employer reported the matter at the Spring Valley Police Station in Dagoretti, Nairobi County.
The detectives, while detailing the incident, disclosed that the suspect, who had lived with her employer for 15 months, took advantage of her boss’s absence and broke into the manager’s safe.
According to the sleuths, the employer informed them that the safe contained valuable items, including family passports, foreign national IDs, 4,000 United States dollars, gold coins, Diwali statues, a pen drive, a hard disk, bank locker keys, and perfumes.
“The incident which was reported on March 11, 2025, at Spring Valley Police Station, reveals a tale of betrayal from a trusted employee of 15 months, believed to have stolen a safe brimming with valuable items,” the DCI officers narrated.
Upon visiting the crime scene, detectives discovered that the safe previously secured with screws in a wardrobe had been expertly unscrewed and stolen.
After several days of manhunt, DCI officers from the Nairobi Region Headquarters jointly with their Dagoretti counterparts cornered the suspect at her hideout in Kawangware's Congo Maumau area.
Following her arrest, the officers went on to search the suspect’s house, only to find a trove of stolen items, including 29 one-hundred-dollar notes.
The officers also recovered assorted Indian Rupees, perfumes, and women’s purses, which, according to the detectives, belonged to the suspect’s employer.
While being interrogated by the DCI officers, the househelp confessed to having discarded the ransacked safe at River Maumau.
However, the officers, with help from local divers, managed to retrieve the safe from the riverbed, only to find it emptied of its contents.
The suspect is currently in police custody undergoing processing pending arraignment. Meanwhile, the recovered items are securely preserved as exhibits.