Police have arrested four Tanzanians and recovered narcotics believed to be cocaine in Kitengela as crackdown against drug trafficking intensifies.
The officers, drawn from the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), conducted a 3am raid at a house in Beckvike homes where they confiscated 143 pellets of cocaine stashed in empty packets of juice.
Digital weighing machines, mobile phones and cash in both foreign and Kenyan currency were discovered during the raid.
“A further search led to the recovery of digital weighing machines, $245USD, Ksh26,100, Tsh11,000, Indian Rupees and mobile phones,” DCI said in statement.
A Kenyan identified as Nancy Munyota was also arrested during the raid.
The four suspects have been identified as Ali Abubakar, Mohammed Kassim, Saad Salim and Rosse Paul Tito.
