Detectives Arrest Two Kenyan Police Officers Filmed Stealing Confiscated Narcotics Worth Millions
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Serious Crime Unit have arrested two police officers for allegedly stealing confiscated narcotics.
In a statement, the DCI says that the two police officers were captured on CCTV footage stealing the drugs worth millions of shillings.
The DCI has released photos of two police officers identified as Cpl. Alloys Onyango and Constable Arbanus Mutunga.
The two allegedly stole more than 25 kilograms of heroin which had been seized from drug traffickers and stored in a local police station.
The two officers allegedly used a drug trafficker identified as Peter Odogo Okoth to lure two other drug traffickers and owners of the narcotics; Alfric Odhiambo Otieno and Kenneth Sinzore.
The two police officers later ambushed Otieno and Sinzore, took the drugs before dumping them. Onyango and Mutunga were later arrested with the narcotics.
"No one will be spared in the war against crime," the DCI says.