Directorate of Criminal Investigations detectives from Kuria East, working jointly with officers from Kegonga Police Station, have arrested three suspects linked to a robbery with violence incident reported on the night of March 14, 2026.
The incident occurred at about 9pm when the victim was robbed at gunpoint along the Getrimba road while responding to a distress call from a friend.
The victim is said to have been driving his Toyota Probox in the company of his wife and another female passenger when they were accosted by a gang of about seven men riding on three motorcycles, one of them armed with a rifle.
The attackers robbed him of Sh320,000 that had been placed on the vehicle’s dashboard.
During the confrontation, he managed to pull out the rifle’s magazine that had been pointed at him, momentarily disrupting the assailant before the gang fled the scene.
“The magazine, loaded with seven rounds of 7.62 × 39mm ammunition, was later handed over to police as evidence,” DCI said.
Officers then traced the suspects to Korumagucha Village, where three suspects were arrested.
They were identified as Samuel Nyamohanga Chacha, 40, Yusuf Marwa Mwita, 24, and Muniko Samwel Mwita, 44.
During the operation, officers recovered a motorcycle registration number KMGU 643Y (Bajaj Boxer) suspected to have been used in the robbery, a Samsung mobile phone, a hat, a shoe believed to have been dropped during the suspects’ escape, and Sh36,000 suspected to be part of the stolen cash.
The suspects remain in police custody pending arraignment as investigations continue.