Transnationational Organized Crime detectives yesterday, September 7, 2021, recovered pellets believed to be heroin from a suspected drug trafficker.
The sleuths nabbed the suspect, Beatrice Awuor, who was preparing to ingest the 60 pellets for shipment to an unknown destination.
According to the DCI, the officers responded to a tip received via the #FichuaKwaDCI hotline and pounced on Awuor at her house in Nasra area in Kayole, Nairobi County.
Suspected Heroin pellets recovered by DCI at a Beatrice Awuor's house in Nasra area, Kayole on September 7, 2021. |Courtesy| Twitter|
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The detectives proceeded to search the 42-year-old suspect's house where they recovered her passport along with two others bearing the names, Caroline Adongo Mujibi, and Rispa Auma Ochieng.
The two are suspected to be her accomplices.
Upon further scrutiny, the detectives managed to identify one of the passports as belonging to a drug trafficker who has an ongoing case in court.
The sleuths also recovered a job identification card belonging to Beatrice Awuor Odhiambo which identified her as a nurse at Mbagathi Hospital.
A digital weighing scale believed to be used in weighing the highly addictive drug made from the seed pod of opium poppy plants, was also recovered.
The scene was documented by crime scene personnel based at the DCI-Kayole and pellets handed over to the anti-narcotics experts based at DCI headquarters, for forensic analysis.
"We thank the caller for fulfilling his patriotic duty, made the call to our officers who acted promptly and arrested the traffickers," DCI tweeted.
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