Police intercept 2 traffickers carrying 12 million shillings in heavy truck

Two suspects are being held at the Mariakani Police Station as investigators conclude their investigation into their drug trafficking enterprise.

Joseph Nzomo, 28, and his accomplice, Auress Godfrey, 27, were arrested on Saturday June 8 by the Anti-Narcotics Unit (ANU) based in Malindi.

The officers acted on a tip-off that the duo used a truck, a Mercedes-Benz Actros KAY 269J/ZC, to transport over 429kg of bhang, estimated to have a street value of around Sh12 million.

With them at the station are the bags of substance and the truck.

Detectives have not established the destination of the substance.

They were ambushed in an open field where they were loading bags of banned weed.

While warning traffickers and peddlers against illicit trade, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is committed to catching them from their hideouts.

This came days after police launched a manhunt for another drug peddler duo who left behind seven bags of bhang worth Sh13 million on the street.

Law enforcement officers came across the drugs while on patrol along the Busia-Kisumu road on Thursday, June 6.

They noticed disturbed vegetation cover, which shows that some criminals were monitoring police activities in the area, waiting for the opportunity to pounce on the narcotics, which were then transported to Busia Police Station as they set out in search of traffickers.