Anti-narcotics detectives have arrested five suspects believed to be part of a large cocaine-smuggling ring after intercepting a woman with 57 pellets of cocaine hidden in her private part at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations in a statement on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, said the primary suspect, Apoko Damaris Adhiambo, had concealed the pellets in her underwear when she was flagged down at JKIA’s terminal A1 central screening area just before boarding a Madagascar-bound plane on Tuesday.
Upon interrogation, the suspect revealed she was recruited into the cocaine smuggling syndicate by one Harriet Asaba, a woman living in Nairobi.
Using forensic technologies, detectives tracked Asaba to Accra Road in Nairobi and arrested her.
“A woman’s stratagem to traffic 57 pellets of cocaine to Madagascar by escaping the grip of our security apparatus at the Jomo Kenyatta Intn’l Airport proved futile last night, when…
Source: Linda Ikeji
