By Wilfred Kizito
Officers from the Central Police Station have dismantled a sophisticated phone theft syndicate operating within Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD), arresting three suspects and recovering a large assortment of stolen electronics.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the intelligence-led operation led to the arrest of Victor Kimani, the prime suspect, who was found tampering with IMEI numbers of stolen mobile phones in a bid to erase their identities.
“Following a brief interrogation, he led detectives to Intermark Business Centre, where two of his alleged accomplices, Marvine Wangundo and Jeremiah Njoroge, were also apprehended,” stated the DCI.
A thorough search of the premises led to the recovery of a significant cache of electronics, including:
36 Samsung phones, 23 Vivo phones, 2 Nokia phones, 1 LG phone, 1 HMD phone, 1 Tecno phone, 1 Motorola phone, 6 M-Kopa Samsung phones, 2 M-Kopa Nokia phones, 2 Vivo motherboards (many of the items were stripped of their back covers, 2 Dell CPUs, 2 HP Elite CPUs and 1 desktop computer.
The suspects are currently in custody as detectives complete investigations and will be arraigned in court.