Undercover detectives from the Anti-Narcotics Unit at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) have apprehended a drug trafficker disguising herself as a normal passenger.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in a statement on Thursday, August 1 stated that the officers recovered 1080 grams of cocaine in the operation.
“The suspect, Bioma Alice Gbassay from Sierra Leone, thought she could slip through security checks, but our vigilant team of detectives caught her right in the act,” noted DCI.
“Upon her arrival in Kenya en route to Mumbai, Bioma was escorted to the immigration offices where her luggage was picked up from the baggage hall and was taken to the Anti-narcotics office.”
After a meticulous search of her body and luggage, the officers recovered suspected narcotic drugs hidden in various places including her underwer.
“From her inner garments, a whitish substance wrapped with clear tape was recovered. Further, two slabs of dove soap concealing a suspicious powdery substance were also recovered in her luggage,” DCI said.
After being subjected to laboratory tests, the detectives noted that recovered substances turned out to be cocaine.
Similarly, law enforcement officers responded to a distress call from the manager of Promise Bus Services plying the Malaba-Nairobi route after he was informed of a passenger exhibiting suspicious behaviour aboard a bus registration number KBY 156K.
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Upon arrival, the officers searched for a parcel belonging to Emmanuel Erony who had boarded the bus to Nairobi.
Inside the parcel, officers discovered 19 large stones of suspected narcotics wrapped in yellow cello tape.
Further investigation revealed that these stones contained cannabis sativa weighing 19,810 grams and with an estimated street value of Ksh 990,500.
The DCI noted that both suspects have been processed for arraignment.
Cases of drug trafficking have been on the rise with the DCI reporting various arrests. The detectives earlier in July nabbed two suspects with 17 bales of bhang worth Ksh 990,000 before they boarded a super metro heading to Kamulu, Kasarani Constituency.
The two were caught moments after disembarking from a Guardian bus from Budalangi, Busia County just before they boarded a super metro shuttle enroute to Kamulu where they reside.
Elsewhere, in the same month DCI arrested a 42-year-old man found trafficking 146kg of bhang along the Kisii-Migori highway. The detectives recovered the drugs after law enforcers in Kisii pursued his vehicle upon learning of his illegal activities.
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