Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) officers on Friday, January 6, arrested three members of a chicken theft syndicate after following a lead that was provided by a viral Closed-circuit Television (CCTV) video clip.
The officers drawn from Kiserian, Runda and Pangani police stations were successfully able to trail a vehicle that was used by the suspected criminals.
According to the police, a group of men and women formed a criminal gang that targeted poultry farmers and traders in Nairobi and its environs.
"The head of the gang has been using a stolen identification card of a househelp who works in Ruiru, Kiambu County," the DCI statement read in part.
In a joint operation, the officers collected information from a mechanic who works along Park Road in Pangani where the car that the gang had used was captured on CCTV.
The mechanic told the officers that the suspicious car was brought to the garage for re-painting from it's original silver to white colour.
"We searched for the details of the car on NTSA's TIMS portal and accurately identified the owner.
"The car was first registered in 2015 as a privately owned saloon motor vehicle," the police confirmed.
Parklands Police officers then made a telephone call to the owner of the vehicle, who eventually led the investigators to the head of the chicken theft syndicate.
DCI officers identified the gang leader as a woman who stole the identity of another female domestic employee in order to conceal her identity and keep investigators from knowing the truth.
The woman whose identity was stolen told the police that she reported the disappearance of her ID card, and obtained an abstract to that effect.
The gang will be charged on Monday, January 9, 2022.
CCTV videos have in the recent past been very crucial in the investigation of trending criminal activities, especially, drivers who fail to pay after fueling their cars at petrol stations.
