A lady purported to be a nurse at Nairobi’s Mbagathi Hospital was arrested, and pellets containing heroin were discovered on her.
The woman was identified as a possible narcotics trafficker by police.
The defendant is suspected of preparing to take 60 pellets of the highly addictive substance in preparation for transportation to an undisclosed location.
On Tuesday, transnational organized crime detectives attacked her home in Kayole’s Nasra neighborhood and pounced on the 42-year-old drug trafficker as she went about her business.
The detectives ransacked her house and recovered her passport, together with two others who are suspected to be her accomplices.
Upon further scrutiny, the sleuths managed to identify one of the passports as that of a drug trafficker, who has an ongoing case in court.
Also recovered was a job identification card bearing the names of the mastermind Beatrice Awuor Odhiambo, which identified her as a nurse at Mbagathi hospital.
A digital weighing scale believed to be used in weighing the illegal product made from the seed pod of opium poppy plants was also recovered.
The scene was documented by crime scene personnel based at DCI-Kayole and the pellets were handed over to anti-narcotics experts based at DCI headquarters, for forensic analysis.
Cases of narcotics trafficking have been on the decline in the country due to various mounted operations.
*This article was written by Marion Munywoki for Uzalendo News. Email: uzalendonews24@gmail.com to submit your story.
