Detectives from the DCI have arrested two notorious suspects, Lavender Akinyi Ogilo and Vincent Odhiambo Otieno, believed to be behind a series of housebreaking incidents in Kiambu and Nairobi counties.
The pair was arrested following housebreaking and theft incidents that took place on April 1 and 19, 2024, in Kitisuru. Police say they got access to a lush home by removing a window pane from the kitchen door and mastering the padlock. In the second incident at Oak Valley Apartments in Kileleshwa, they gained access to a house by mastering the lock of the main door.
In both burglaries, the suspects stole multiple items, including a 55″ TCL TV, a 40″ Samsung TV, a wrist watch, an iPad, a computer monitor, a MacBook laptop, wall paintings, and carpets, among other items.
“Lavender Akinyi was ejected from her four-bedroom house located within Kirigiti while her partner in crime was flushed from a Kasarani base. A black Mercedes Benz T733 DTP used by the suspects in their criminal activities has also been impounded, and efforts to round up the remaining four accomplices are ongoing,” reads a statement from the DCI.
A police report seen by BRK notes that the two suspects were among a gang of six members nabbed and arraigned for a violent robbery by Kilimani detectives back in May 2019.
