{"id":128910,"date":"2026-01-18T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/2-iranians-arrested-after-stealing-sh15000-from-thika-shopkeeper\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:02:50","slug":"2-iranians-arrested-after-stealing-sh15000-from-thika-shopkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/2-iranians-arrested-after-stealing-sh15000-from-thika-shopkeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Iranians arrested after stealing Sh15,000 from Thika shopkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 18\u2014 Detectives in Thika have arrested two Iranian nationals for allegedly stupefying a shopkeeper and stealing Sh15,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on Sunday the suspects, identified as 56-year-old Heidari Mansoior Eslam and 40-year-old Babaei Ahmad Mirzaaga, were apprehended after attempting to execute their scheme at a local mobile phone shop in Thika town.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the two had posed as customers interested in purchasing a mobile phone. However, their behavior raised the shopkeeper\u2019s suspicions, as he recalled a similar theft incident at a nearby shop about a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shopkeeper became suspicious when the pair pretended to be customers looking to purchase a phone,\u201d the DCI said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe suspected the two were involved in a theft at a nearby shop just a month prior, which raised alarms in his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon police arrival, the second shopkeeper positively identified the two foreigners as the same individuals who had allegedly used deceptive tactics to steal Sh 15,000 in the earlier incident.<\/p>\n<p>An alarm was raised, drawing members of the public to the scene. Police officers promptly intervened, rescuing the suspects from a potentially volatile situation and preventing mob justice.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects are currently in custody at Thika Police Station, undergoing processing ahead of their arraignment in court.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 18\u2014 Detectives in Thika have arrested two Iranian nationals for allegedly stupefying a shopkeeper and stealing Sh15,000. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said on Sunday the suspects, identified as 56-year-old Heidari Mansoior Eslam and 40-year-old Babaei Ahmad Mirzaaga, were apprehended after attempting to execute their scheme at a local mobile phone [&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-128910","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\/128910","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=128910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}