{"id":12755,"date":"2024-03-14T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/policeman-killed-as-rowdy-youth-disrupt-illicit-liquor-den-raid\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:04:24","slug":"policeman-killed-as-rowdy-youth-disrupt-illicit-liquor-den-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/policeman-killed-as-rowdy-youth-disrupt-illicit-liquor-den-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Policeman killed as rowdy youth disrupt illicit liquor den raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Mar 14 \u2013 A police officer was Wednesday evening killed by rowdy youths and his firearm stolen in the ongoing crackdown on illicit brews and other substances in Rarieda, Siaya county.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a police report, the deceased was in the company of another officer when they raided a homestead to confiscate the brews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officers were acting on a tip off,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The officers recovered brews, 21 satchets of Simba waragi and 4 packets of super match cigarettes for export.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Caren Okumu then raised an alarm attracting villagers who responded.<\/p>\n<p>They attacked the two officers with stones and other crude weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The slain officer, shot five times in the air to scare away the attackers but it was in vain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officer succumbed to injuries as the other officer fled to safety but with injuries on his shoulder,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers took off with his pistol loaded with unknown rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The body was transferred to Lwak mission hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.<\/p>\n<p>Police have managed to arrest Caren Auma as the hunt for more suspects intensified and also to recover the missing firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened after a warning issued early this week by Nyanza Regional Commissioner Flora Mworoa that security agencies will not spare whoever is hampering the crackdown.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Mar 14 \u2013 A police officer was Wednesday evening killed by rowdy youths and his firearm stolen in the ongoing crackdown on illicit brews and other substances in Rarieda, Siaya county. According to a police report, the deceased was in the company of another officer when they raided a homestead to confiscate 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-12755","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\/12755","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=12755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}