A 30-year-old woman was arrested in Nakuru county while attempting to smuggle bhang and cigarettes into police cells.
Police arrested the suspect on Sunday after she failed to deliver drugs to a man being held at Gilgil police station in Gilgil sub county.
The incident was reported at 7.45 a.m. at the same station as a recovery of narcotic drug/arrest of a prisoner at the report office incident report.
According to police, around 6.20 a.m. today at Gilgil police station, a lady asked two officers on duty to allow her to give a loaf of bread and a cup of tea to a male detainee.
She claimed that the man was her husband, who had been arrested on November 25 at 11:00 a.m. for housebreaking and stealing.
According to police, the woman panicked and became suspicious when officers began inspecting the food she had brought as part of the procedure.
This piqued the officers’ interest in her package. They took the loaf of bread and noticed that the seal had been tampered with.
“The officers took a further step to open the bread only to find that the top most slices were intact but at the middle the bread had a hole stuffed with 5 rolls of cannabis sativa, 5 sticks of cigarettes and a match box,” a police report reads in part.
After realizing she had been cornered, the woman pleaded with the officers to let her go.
She even tried to bribe them by promising to pay the officers Sh2,000 if they would just look the other way.
“The police officers immediately arrested the lady and upon further search 80 rolls of bhang were found, hidden in her undergarments,” police said.
The station’s OCS and DCI Gilgil personnel went to the scene and took the necessary actions. All recovered items were preserved as exhibits.
The case was taken up by OCS Gilgil police station, and the woman will be arraigned in court tomorrow.
