A fake gold dealer outwitted two police officers who had been sent to arrest him and stole a gun from one of them in an undercover job gone wrong.
In a case that confounded investigators, the two officers were given one firearm each in order to arrest the target March 17, 2023, an infamous dealer believed to trade in fake gold.
Disguising themselves as gold buyers, the officers scheduled a meeting with the dealer at a high-end hotel in Nairobi.
A report filed in a Police Occurrence Book (OB) also showed that during the meeting, the two law enforcers sat down with the scammer and started negotiating at the joint.
The conversations reportedly dragged on for a while before the dealer pulled one of the officers aside for a one-on-one conversation.
The other officer then grew skeptical when the side chat between the duo took too long and went to probe only to find his colleague missing his gun
The gold dealer was nowhere to be seen which drove the two officers into a frenzy of trying to locate the pistol, a Ceska type.
They searched the hotel and even asked its security to help them find the culprit they came to apprehend to no avail.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Nairobi arrested the duo over the missing gun and launched investigations into the incident.
The Firearms Act section 26 A (d) states that, "Any public officer who fails to account fully for all ammunition, issued to and used by him, shall be guilty of an offence, abs liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than seven years and not more than fifteen years and shall, in addition, be automatically dismissed from the public service."
The fake gold scam came a week after news of an investigative report revealed the underworld dealings of a famous gold scammer, Kamlesh Pattni, in Zimbabwe.
