{"id":110177,"date":"2025-02-10T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/lone-highway-robber-apprehended-after-crashing-while-fleeing-police\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:03:42","slug":"lone-highway-robber-apprehended-after-crashing-while-fleeing-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/lone-highway-robber-apprehended-after-crashing-while-fleeing-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone highway robber apprehended after crashing while fleeing police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 10 \u2013 A 36-year-old highway robbery suspect was arrested last night near Archer\u2019s Police Post after he allegedly attempted to carjack an unsuspecting driver at the Isiolo-Garbatula junction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Ibrahim Hassan was apprehended by police officers after a chase that ended in a crash near the police post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHassan is currently undergoing processing for arraignment,\u201d read part of the statement from the DCI.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate revealed that Hassan, disguised as a stranded traveler, flagged down the driver of a white Mitsubishi lorry at the Isiolo-Garbatula junction.<\/p>\n<p>Pretending to seek a lift to Archer\u2019s town, the unsuspecting driver agreed to help him, only to be shocked when Hassan refused to alight at his destination and brandished a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing for his life, the driver continued the journey while Hassan remained an imminent threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeizing a rare opportunity, the driver jumped out of the lorry and escaped unhurt, immediately reporting the incident to a standby team of police officers at Archer\u2019s Post,\u201d stated the DCI.<\/p>\n<p>The police promptly launched a pursuit of Hassan, who was now commandeering the lorry towards Isiolo town.<\/p>\n<p>However, he took an unfamiliar murram road, which\u2014unbeknownst to him\u2014led directly to Archer\u2019s Police Post. <\/p>\n<p>As officers continued their pursuit close behind, Hassan, lost control and veered off the main road, crashing into a tree.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at the scene, and upon searching him, officers found a panga, a knife, and a screwdriver\u2014further confirming his dangerous intentions.<\/p>\n<p>This incident comes just weeks after a carjacking suspect, believed to be part of a ring targeting motorists along Nairobi\u2019s Southern Bypass, was apprehended on the third day of the new year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 10 \u2013 A 36-year-old highway robbery suspect was arrested last night near Archer\u2019s Police Post after he allegedly attempted to carjack an unsuspecting driver at the Isiolo-Garbatula junction. According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Ibrahim Hassan was apprehended by police officers after a chase that ended in a crash near [&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-110177","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\/110177","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=110177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}