Police drawn from the Criminal investigation Department (CID) used a car tracker to trace a stolen motor vehicle to an estate in Nairobi, a Nakuru court has heard.
Senior CID officer Justus Waweru narrated how police trailed the lost car to a compound in Nairobi’s Githurai 44 estate before arresting two men and their woman accomplice at the scene.
He said the vehicle had disappeared on November 5, 2012 from Molo town in Nakuru County after armed gangsters attacked the owner and fled with it. Waweru told Senior Principal Magistrate Felix Kombo that on the morning of November 17, accompanied by other CID officers, they were led by a tracking gadget fitted in the car from Mama Lucy Hospital to the scene where they impounded the vehicle that had already been vandalised.
The officer who was testifying in a case where Wilson Irungu, Benson Wainaina and Susan Wainaina face capital robbery charges revealed that they laid an ambush on four men and a woman at the homestead but on realising that they were police officers, the gangsters engaged them in a gun battle.
“When they were asked to stop, they defied the orders. One of them who was armed started shooting at us,” he stated.
He said that they succeeded to arrest three of the suspects as two men fled.
Waweru said that among the things recovered from the suspects’ house after they combed the residence was a gun and a damaged tracking system which had allegedly been removed from the vehicle.
The three suspects were then ferried to Kayole police station where they were held in custody for interrogation before they were later transferred to Nakuru to face the charges.
However, the woman said to be the owner of the house and the two men have since pleaded innocence and said the accusations levelled against her were ridiculous.
The court set hearing of the case for October 15.