{"id":106167,"date":"2024-12-25T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T08:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/man-wife-flee-as-police-uncover-truckload-of-rice-seized-in-a-highway-robbery\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T08:04:19","slug":"man-wife-flee-as-police-uncover-truckload-of-rice-seized-in-a-highway-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/man-wife-flee-as-police-uncover-truckload-of-rice-seized-in-a-highway-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, wife flee as police uncover truckload of rice seized in a highway robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 25 \u2014 Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) recovered 129 bags of rice stolen on December 21 by a gang of four criminals while the cargo was in transit from Mombasa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The truck driver was attacked by highway robbers at the Machinery area of Kambu along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway. <\/p>\n<p>The gang offloaded 500 bags of 25kg rice from the truck, abandoned the empty lorry, and shared the loot.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, overpowered and assaulted by the motorcycle-riding gang, was forced to surrender the truck before being dumped near Makindu. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/12\/20241225_104007.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He subsequently reported the incident to Makindu Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on a tip-off, DCI Makindu officers raided the home of a suspect identified as Alex Kasina, 42. <\/p>\n<p>Kasina and his wife fled the scene upon seeing the police. <\/p>\n<p>Officers recovered 129 bags of stolen rice from the house.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing to apprehend the gang members and recover the missing rice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 25 \u2014 Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) recovered 129 bags of rice stolen on December 21 by a gang of four criminals while the cargo was in transit from Mombasa. The truck driver was attacked by highway robbers at the Machinery area of Kambu along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway. The [&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-106167","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\/106167","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=106167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}