Editor's Review

The phones believed to have been stolen from members of the public were stuffed inside a Toyota Premio.

A suspect is currently in police custody after the law enforcers in Nairobi intercepted him with a consignment of stolen mobile phones.

Dennis Kioko Mutua was on the wheels of a Toyota Premio on the dawn of Saturday, November 25, when the officers on alert flagged him down in the Umoja area.

A total of 354 phones were found in the vehicle.

Kioko was arrested and placed in custody at the Kayole Police Station ahead of his arraignment on Monday, November 27.

The loot would be used as exhibits to aid in the case.

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The suspect was arrested in Umoja, Nairobi County.

This came a few days after the detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) caught up with a syndicate of suspected thugs robbing members of the public of their phones.

The racket led by a 32-year-old man had with it over 417 mobile phones in Nyeri.

According to the detectives, the recovery and arrest followed interrogations on two young men earlier arrested by Nyeri detectives, after they were cornered while snatching mobile phones from shoppers in Gatitu, Nyeri.

The phones were procured by mobile phone repairers in the town.

John Kariuki and James Thuita, the suspects behind the theft, were apprehended on November 1.

The detectives would then proceed to Gatitu shopping centre where their accomplice David Thinwa Ngatia who operated a mobile phone repair shop was ambushed and the recoveries made.

Other items found stashed in his business space included two TV sets, three laptops, two cameras, 47 mobile subscriber sim cards, and a HP printer among others.

The loot was all seized and kept as exhibits.