MOMBASA, Mar 28 (NNN-KBC) – Kenya’s anti-narcotics police, said yesterday, they have arrested a suspect, with 678 grams of heroin, in the port city of Mombasa.
Coast regional Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), commandant Washington Njiru, said, Juma Mohammed, 48, was nabbed, while crossing the busy Likoni-Ferry channel, and that he had concealed the heroin in brown granules, wrapped in a red carrier bag.
Njiru said that, investigators are probing the suspect, to nab more accomplices in the trade.
The latest arrest comes just two weeks after a Tanzanian woman was arrested in the coastal city, with 5.3 kilograms of heroin.
Kenya’s Coastal region remains a hotspot in the narcotics trade, with traffickers taking advantage of porous borders and weak sea security, to smuggle narcotics.
