Police officers have arrested a burglary victim in Likoni, Mombasa after 61 mobile phones were discovered in his house during a crime scene investigation process.
Police said the development followed a distress call received at Inuka Police Station in Likoni Sub-County regarding a burglary incident in the Mnarani area.
The officers, led by the Officer Commanding Inuka Police Station, rushed to the scene and established that criminals armed with machetes and other crude weapons had broken into the rented house of the victim.
According to police, the miscreants gained entry by climbing over the main gate and then breaking the steel door of the house using strong metal bars.
Police said they stole one mobile phone and an
unknown amount of money before escaping, leaving the victim with two deep cuts
on his head, necessitating medical attention at a nearby hospital.
Upon revisiting the scene, officers discovered a hole in the ceiling board of the house.
On peeping through the hole, the officers
unearthed four machetes (one blood-stained), two kitchen knives, two
televisions (55-inch and 43-inch), 61 mobile phones of various brands, one
portable public address system, one card reader, two copies of ID cards and one
East African passport bearing the same name.
Following this development, the victim-turned-suspect was traced to a medical clinic where he was arrested and escorted to Inuka Police Station along with the recovered exhibits, awaiting further processing and subsequent arraignment.
Police say cases of burglary have been on the rise and blame insider information on most of them.
The police want those travelling and leaving their houses to take measures to ensure their safety.
For example, a family lost jewellery valued at
Sh8 million, Sh900,000 and electronic goods in a burglary incident in the Parklands
area, Nairobi.
The family had gone to attend to their butchery business and locked the house only to find it broken into and the cash and valuables stolen.
Police officers visited the scene and established that the house had been broken into through the front door.
Police said they established a four-wheel
drive car that dropped off two men at the basement parking of the apartment
before they went to the house and broke in.
They were later picked up at the same site.
Police believe the gang had prior information on the cash and other valuables.
