{"id":73687,"date":"2024-08-03T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T08:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/gun-dealer-who-escaped-from-karen-police-station-rearrested-in-kasarani\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T08:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T08:04:52","slug":"gun-dealer-who-escaped-from-karen-police-station-rearrested-in-kasarani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/gun-dealer-who-escaped-from-karen-police-station-rearrested-in-kasarani\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun-dealer who escaped from Karen police station rearrested in Kasarani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 3 \u2013 A gun dealer who escaped from from Karen police station, Nairobi as police booked him following the discovery of a cache of arms and bullets in his house was finally rearrested.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police identified him as Shailesh Mistry is the Chief Executive Officer at Cateyes Customs Limited, which deals in firearms.<\/p>\n<p>He was rearrested in Kasarani area, Nairobi on Friday August 2 as he sought a place to hide from police.<\/p>\n<p>Police had been looking for him following his dramatic escape that left one officer injured on Thursday August 1 evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a man haunt was launched and following intelligence leads, the escapee was intercepted while driving his vehicle within Kasarani area where he was re arrested.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, when police arrested him on Thursday August 1 afternoon, they said they found him with an expired firearm license.<\/p>\n<p>He dramatically escaped in his car from Karen police station as a team of police booked him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he knocked down the gate at the station as he escaped from the lawful custody.<\/p>\n<p>Mistry was arrested at a restaurant in Karen by a team of police and escorted to Karen Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>A search was conducted in his Mark X car and an assortment of pistols and bullets recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The weapons included a Sig Sauer pistol and two Canik pistols.<\/p>\n<p>The police also found six empty magazines and 775 assorted bullets.<\/p>\n<p>They included 104 bullets used for short guns.<\/p>\n<p>Later the suspect was escorted to his residence at Southlands Estate Jordan Court and upon search a short gun with 210 bullets were recovered from the house.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect produced a civilian firearm certificate that shows it expired on February 21, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>It was then a decision was made to take him to custody.<\/p>\n<p>As he was being escorted to the cells, he requested to pick a heavy sweater from his car, which was parked a few meters to the report office.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 3 \u2013 A gun dealer who escaped from from Karen police station, Nairobi as police booked him following the discovery of a cache of arms and bullets in his house was finally rearrested. Police identified him as Shailesh Mistry is the Chief Executive Officer at Cateyes Customs Limited, which deals in firearms. [&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-73687","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\/73687","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=73687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}