{"id":79610,"date":"2024-08-17T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T11:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/police-seize-cache-of-crude-weapons-in-house-of-gsu-officer-killer\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T11:08:27","slug":"police-seize-cache-of-crude-weapons-in-house-of-gsu-officer-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/police-seize-cache-of-crude-weapons-in-house-of-gsu-officer-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize cache of crude weapons in house of GSU officer killer"},"content":{"rendered":"

KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 17 \u2013 Members of the public in Kisumu thronged Kondele Police Station to witness a cache of crude weapons discovered in a suspect\u2019s house.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The suspect is in police custody, according to the county police commander Kizito Mutoro.<\/p>\n

The intense manhunt for those who killed a General Service Unit (GSU) officer in Kisumu early in the week, led detectives to a gangs\u2019 hideouts.<\/p>\n

Mutoro says the crude weapons are suspected to be used in terrorizing locals in the lakeside city and its environs.<\/p>\n

The items recovered include, swords, police combat boots, arrows , several IDs and rungus.<\/p>\n

Mutoro says there are other dangerous items, which were not displayed due to the number of members of the public present.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe items recovered are here displayed to the public but there are some which we have not revealed,\u201d said the officer.<\/p>\n

He says the suspects have rented several houses, where they are operating their illegal activities.<\/p>\n

Mutoro says police are closing on another suspect, who is on the run.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can assure you, by tomorrow morning, we will have the suspect arrested,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the press at Kondele police station on Saturday, Mutoro assured the public of their safety in the wake of items recovered from the suspect\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, a GSU officer was killed in Manyatta, leading to a man hunt of the suspects behind the killing.<\/p>\n

Already, one suspect is in police custody after his arrest at their rural home in Asembo, Rarieda sub county, Siaya County.<\/p>\n

Mutoro says efforts are underway to arrest the accomplice of the suspect, who were naked by witnesses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KISUMU, Kenya, Aug 17 \u2013 Members of the public in Kisumu thronged Kondele Police Station to witness a cache of crude weapons discovered in a suspect\u2019s house. The suspect is in police custody, according to the county police commander Kizito Mutoro. The intense manhunt for those who killed a General Service Unit (GSU) officer in […]<\/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-79610","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\/79610","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=79610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}