{"id":138096,"date":"2026-04-17T14:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/two-arrested-as-detectives-recover-stolen-police-firearm-in-rongai-raid\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:02:50","slug":"two-arrested-as-detectives-recover-stolen-police-firearm-in-rongai-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/two-arrested-as-detectives-recover-stolen-police-firearm-in-rongai-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested as detectives recover stolen police firearm in Rongai raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kajiado North have arrested two suspects and recovered a firearm previously stolen from a police officer during an intelligence-led operation in Rongai, Kajiado County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The operation, conducted jointly with officers from Ngong Police Station, targeted the Kware and Mandazi Road areas where the suspects were apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the suspects as Cyrus Mureithi Mburu, 54, and Peter Kangethe, 49.<\/p>\n<p>A search at Mburu\u2019s residence led to the recovery of a magazine loaded with 15 rounds of 9mm ammunition as well as a half-litre of gun oil.<\/p>\n<p>Further, a Ceska pistol which had earlier been stolen from an officer attached to the Security of Government Buildings unit was also recovered.<\/p>\n\n<p>Detectives also seized two imitation firearms, a pair of handcuffs, keys and a Maasai sword.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are currently being held at Ngong Police Station as investigations continue ahead of their arraignment in court.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/two-arrested-as-detectives-recover-stolen-police-firearm-in-rongai-raid\/\">Two arrested as detectives recover stolen police firearm in Rongai raid<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kajiado North have arrested two suspects and recovered a firearm previously stolen from a police officer during an intelligence-led operation in Rongai, Kajiado County. The operation, conducted jointly with officers from Ngong Police Station, targeted the Kware and Mandazi Road areas where the suspects were apprehended. [&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-138096","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\/138096","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=138096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}