In the ongoing crackdown on criminal gangs across the country, officers from Dandora Police Station in Nairobi seized a Desert Eagle 50 AE magnum pistol.
Acting on crucial intelligence, the team sprang into action with a targeted raid in Dandora Phase 5, where a nefarious group was plotting to unleash terror on innocent members of the public in Katoo area.
As officers closed in, the suspects scattered like leaves in the wind, vanishing into the night, but not before one of the suspects dropped a jacket.
Inside that jacket, officers found an Israeli made Desert Eagle 50 AE magnum pistol tucked away in one of the jacket’s pockets, waiting to be unleashed.
This potent piece of firepower has now been dispatched to the National Forensic Laboratory (NFL), where ballistic experts will dissect its history to uncover whether it’s linked to other nefarious deeds.
With the heat turned up and the hunt intensifying, police are leaving no stone unturned to track down the slippery suspects still at large. As the saying goes, “Every dog has its day,” and for these criminals, their day of reckoning may be just around the corner.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has ramped up intelligence-led operations nationwide, tightening the noose around criminal gangs that thrive on fear and lawlessness.
Elsewhere, police in Diani arrested four suspects believed to be members of the notorious “Panga Boys” organised gang.
The suspects were apprehended at their hideout in Mbuwani Village, Kwale County. This followed a robbery with violence incident reported on the night of January 22, 2026, in which a resident of the village was attacked by the four assailants, who were armed with pangas.
They robbed him of his mobile phone and inflicted serious injuries by cutting him on the head and hand before fleeing the scene.
Police also recovered four pangas believed to have been used in the attack, as well as six suspected stolen mobile phones.
The suspects were subsequently escorted to Diani Police Station, where they are being processed pending further investigation and arraignment.
Police have ramped up operations in various places to address crime cases on the rise.
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