Detectives from the Kitengela Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are holding one of their colleagues who was discovered in possession of items stolen from a crime scene in Athi River, Machakos County.
According to Kitengela Police Station, Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) Athi River had requested assistance with a death investigation.
The Kitengela Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) is said to have delegated the investigation to a Police Constable.
The complainant reported that his personal belongings were missing after the crime scene was processed.
“Later the complainant, Mr Lawrence Akinola a Nigerian male adult who had accommodated the deceased in his house, namely Cheche Omung’ala, reported that his laptop and mobile phone all valued at 70,000/-were stolen from his house during the processing of the scene by the said officer. This prompted the said investigating officer to make a follow-up,” read part of the police report.
The said detective was questioned and was discovered in his office with the laptop suspected of being stolen during the crime scene investigation.
Further questioning led the suspect to the iPhone, which he had already sold to an unsuspecting buyer in Kitengela town for a pittance.
The laptop and iPhone were recovered and preserved as evidence, an inventory was taken, and both the laptop and iPhone were positively identified by the complainant.
The CSI officer was arrested and remanded in custody, apparently intoxicated, pending formal charges.
He was one of the new officers assigned to Kitengela in July, following the transfer of all previous Crime Scene Investigators in what was seen as a major purge of the department.
