Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives from the agency's Starehe office on Sunday arrested two suspects over links to the murder of a young man committed on March 7.
In a post, the DCI confirmed that detectives had arrested the two at Dandora Phase IV within Nairobi County. According to the crime busters, the duo were involved in purchasing a phone stolen from the victim.
The DCI reported that one of the two suspects was found in possession of the phone having acquired it from his fellow suspect who in turn had acquired it from the murder suspect.
“Following a brief interrogation of two key suspects in the murder most foul, detectives based at DCI Starehe have arrested two suspects in Dandora Phase IV.”
“This is after painstaking investigations led sleuths to the suspect’s business shop where the victim's mobile phone earlier robbed by the perpetrators of the evil act was taken, and later sold out by him to the second suspect who was arrested in its possession.”
Additionally, the officers managed to confiscate 95 phones which are reported to have been stolen in various parts of Nairobi.
The DCI revealed that the March 7 murder occurred while the two suspects including the victim, were walking in the same direction. One of the suspects is said to have drawn his knife and stabbed the victim on the left side of the chest.
“The man later succumbed to the injuries while at the Baba Dogo Health Centre,” explained the DCI.
Both perpetrators then fled from the scene leaving the victim for dead before their arrest on March 17.
In a previous crackdown conducted by the DCI, on March 5, 21 individuals were arrested while more than a hundred phones and laptops were confiscated in an operation seeking to reduce theft of electronics within the capital.
Further, the DCI announced a continued crackdown on mobile phone thieves posing as phone repair agents across the city.
In a separate incident on Saturday night, the DCI confirmed having arrested three Nigerians and a Kenyan in a drug trafficking syndicate. The three were cornered by the sleuths in the Nairobi Central Business District before proceeding to Kasarani in their home, where DCI nabbed bhang and another drug.
