City Carwash attendant arrested, stolen Pistol Recovered

POLICE in Nairobi have arrested a city carwash attendant who went underground after stealing a fully loaded pistol from a client’s vehicle.

An intensified police operation in Nairobi successfully recovered the Ceska pistol, hours after it was reported missing during a carwash service at a yard along Ralph Bunche Road.

Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei

A civilian firearm holder working with the government had left the weapon in the vehicle while it was being washed and went for lunch.

On coming back, he said he found the weapon missing from a compartment where he had kept it.

This prompted a search in vain. A team of police was called to the scene and reviewed security cameras in the yard, which captured an attendant removing the pistol and concealing it under an overall he was wearing.

He later walked out of the gate while wearing the overall contrary to the rules.

Attendants there are supposed to remove and leave their overalls when signing off, the management said.

The following day on Wednesday he did not report to work as police searched for him.He was nabbed along Loita Street in the Central Business District where he planned to hand over the weapon to an accomplice.

The suspect had reportedly sold seven bullets from the pistol.

When it went missing, it had 15 bullets but when it was recovered it had eight, police said.Police say such weapons are used to commit crimes.

The investigators said they are looking for more accomplices in the case.

They are also investigating to establish if he has past criminal cases.

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