{"id":3440,"date":"2024-02-21T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/police-seize-1450-crates-of-banned-beer-in-karatina-valued-at-sh4mn\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:04:08","slug":"police-seize-1450-crates-of-banned-beer-in-karatina-valued-at-sh4mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/police-seize-1450-crates-of-banned-beer-in-karatina-valued-at-sh4mn\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize 1,450 crates of banned beer in Karatina valued at Sh4mn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NYERI, Kenya, Feb 21 \u2014 Police in Karatina have seized 1,450 crates of beer valued at Sh4 million in a renewed campaign on banned alcoholic products.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mathira East Deputy County Commissioner Rodger Rusungu said the Couty Security Committee banned the brands identified as \u2018Diamond\u2019 and \u2018Flying Horse\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The consignment was netted at a depot in Karatina town moments after it was stocked.<\/p>\n<p>Rusungu said the security committee had established a high prevalence of counterfeit for the two brands prompting the decision to ban them.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure comes amid a heightened campaign on unlicenced alcohol operations after twenty-three people died in Kirinyaga after consuming illicit alcohol.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2024\/02\/police-arrest-notorious-brewer-in-renewed-crackdown-on-illicit-alcohol\/\">Police arrest notorious brewer in renewed crackdown on illicit alcohol<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, police officers in Migori\u2019s Kuria West sub-county apprehended a 52-year-old brewer as part of the ongoing crackdown on illegal alcohol operations.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested the suspect, identified as Tabuya Museti, after finding him in possession of 100 liters of\u00a0<em>Changa\u2019a<\/em>a, a home-brewed spirit, and 400 liters of\u00a0<em>Kangara<\/em>, an ingredient used in making\u00a0<em>Changa\u2019aa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He reportedly resisted arrest and threatened police officers with a crude weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the suspect spotted the officers within his home compound, he got into his house and came out while armed with a panga and started threatening to kill any officer who will dare to arrest him,\u201d read a police report obtained by Capital News.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYERI, Kenya, Feb 21 \u2014 Police in Karatina have seized 1,450 crates of beer valued at Sh4 million in a renewed campaign on banned alcoholic products. Mathira East Deputy County Commissioner Rodger Rusungu said the Couty Security Committee banned the brands identified as \u2018Diamond\u2019 and \u2018Flying Horse\u2019. The consignment was netted at a depot in [&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-3440","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\/3440","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=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}