A suspect who planned to steal from motorists stuck on the road was arrested and a gun found on him along the Eastern bypass, Mwihoko, Nairobi.
Three people in a car had stopped on the road on Monday morning after their vehicle developed mechanical issues.
According to police, two men on a motorcycle pulled there and robbed the victims of mobile phones.
Police were alerted and responded to the scene as a mechanic attended to the car.
It was then that another motorcycle pulled there but at a distance and dropped a pillion passenger.
The passenger walked to the scene, not aware that the police had already arrived.
He pretended to be one of the rescuers, but when he was challenged, he bent down to his right leg, and the officers became suspicious of his action.
The officers ordered him to surrender and raise his hands.
He was hence arrested and a quick search was conducted whereby the suspect aged 19.
Police said they found a Retay Falcon loaded with three rounds of 9mm ammunition intact in his right leg in the socks. He was arrested for further action.
Meanwhile, police are investigating possible drowning incident in Mukeu location, Ngati, Thika.
This is after a body of a man was found floating in the river Chania near the water supply area.
Police officers visited the scene and found the dead body of an unknown male, which was floating, having been trapped by fallen tree branches.
The body was badly decomposed and appeared to have stayed in the water for some days.
The body was retrieved with the assistance of the divers from Kiambu County and taken to the General Kago mortuary in Thika, awaiting identification and postmortem examination.
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