A wanted drug trafficker together with his girlfriend who is a student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture Technology were arrested over the weekend while in possession of heroin of unknown value.
The male suspect, Hillary Wanjiku Wachira, was arrested along Limuru Road after police officers ambushed him. Drugs were found in his car.
His girlfriend was also found in possession of 50 sachets of drugs when she was arrested from her hostel in Juja.
Wachira who was dubbed as 'notorious' by the police, has been on the wanted list of drug traffickers.
Police also searched Wachira's house in Juja, Kiambu County where they arrested his roommate Caroline Nyambura Gituma who was also found with drugs.
According to reports from Standard Media, Wachira escaped from police custody after he was arrested in May this year.
Packages of Heroin had been recovered from him when he was arrested in Mathare, Nairobi.
It is after he escaped frompolice custody under mysterious circumstances that he was labelled a 'wanted man'.
It is alleged that Wachira is among the many drug peddlers who conduct their business in the country.
"What we are yet to establish is how these drugs find their way into the city and the barons behind it because the suspect we have arrested is just a seller," Nairobi head of Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Bernard Nyakwaka stated.
Police are continuing with investigations into the case to establish the source of the drugs.