{"id":119518,"date":"2025-08-10T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/man-suspected-of-stealing-from-tourist-in-maasai-mara-arrested\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:03:34","slug":"man-suspected-of-stealing-from-tourist-in-maasai-mara-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/man-suspected-of-stealing-from-tourist-in-maasai-mara-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected of stealing from tourist in Maasai Mara arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 10 \u2013 A man suspected of stealing from a Greek tourist at the Maasai Mara Game Park, has been apprehended by police.<\/p>\n<p>The middle-aged man is alleged to have made away with valuables and cash worth millions of shillings.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate of Criminal Investigations says the suspect joined the tourist and his tour guide on a trip to the Maasai Mara on August 6.<\/p>\n<p>The tourist had arrived in Nairobi the previous day and met the man online before the excursion.<\/p>\n<p>While at the park, the suspect vanished with three debit cards, a mobile phone, and a wristwatch. Shortly afterwards, 25,000 Euros (about Ksh3.7 million) was withdrawn from the victim\u2019s bank account.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered several mobile phones, a Seiko Crystal wristwatch, Ksh54,050 in cash, US dollars, and a brand-new tour trek bicycle believed to have been purchased with the stolen funds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 10 \u2013 A man suspected of stealing from a Greek tourist at the Maasai Mara Game Park, has been apprehended by police. The middle-aged man is alleged to have made away with valuables and cash worth millions of shillings. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations says the suspect joined the tourist and his [&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-119518","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\/119518","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=119518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}