{"id":106143,"date":"2024-12-24T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T16:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/hunt-on-for-highway-robbers-as-police-recover-stolen-rice\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T16:04:46","slug":"hunt-on-for-highway-robbers-as-police-recover-stolen-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/hunt-on-for-highway-robbers-as-police-recover-stolen-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt on for highway robbers as police recover stolen rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Detectives in Kibwezi, Makueni County, have recovered 129 bags of rice that were stolen while in transit from Mombasa. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The theft occurred on December 21 when a truck driver was ambushed by highway robbers in the Machinery area of Kambu.<\/p>\n<p>In his report at Makindu Police Station, the driver stated that he was overpowered by a gang of four men riding motorcycles. After assaulting him, the robbers commandeered the loaded truck and dumped the driver near Makindu.<\/p>\n<p>The gang then offloaded 500 bags of rice, each weighing 25kg, from the truck before abandoning the empty vehicle and dividing the stolen goods among themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Following a tip-off, DCI Makindu officers raided the home of one of the suspects, identified as Alex Mweti Kasina, 42. Upon learning that police were nearby, Kasina fled with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Outside his house, detectives found 129 of the stolen bags. Investigations are ongoing to apprehend the remaining gang members and recover the rest of the bags.<\/p>\n\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/hunt-on-for-highway-robbers-as-police-recover-stolen-rice\/\">Hunt on for highway robbers as police recover stolen rice<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives in Kibwezi, Makueni County, have recovered 129 bags of rice that were stolen while in transit from Mombasa. The theft occurred on December 21 when a truck driver was ambushed by highway robbers in the Machinery area of Kambu. In his report at Makindu Police Station, the driver stated that he was overpowered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}