Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, on Friday, October 25, laid an elaborate plan that led to the capture of a wanted drug baron barely six months after he escaped police custody.
The Standard reported on Monday, October 28, that Hillary Wanjiku Wachira, had been under the police radar for a while since an arrest warrant was issued in May 2019.
On the fateful day, the detectives laid a trap and ambushed the dealer along Limuru Road where he was found in the possession of several sachets of heroin.
In May, Wachira had been arrested for the offence around Nairobi's Mathare area but managed to escape police custody in unexplained circumstances prompting the police to issue an arrest warrant against him.
The crackdown also nabbed his supposed girlfriend, a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (Jkuat) after she was found with 50 sachets of heroin in a house believed to be belonging to the suspect in Juja, Kiambu County.
Confirming the incident, Nairobi head of Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Bernard Nyakwaka revealed that the supply of illicit drugs in the city was on the rise and that Wachira was one among many suppliers that they were actively pursuing.
"What we are yet to establish is how these drugs find their way into the city and the barons behind it because the suspect we have arrested is just a seller," stated Nyakwaka.
The officers are, however, after the big fish in the trade and believe that the regular arrests they make only nab peddlers way lower in the intricate drug business.
"Be it drugs, contraband goods, money laundering or any other crime, we must deal with the entire chain," stated DCI George Kinoti in an earlier press briefing.
