Police break Nairobi based car theft syndicate

Security officers views a carjacking vehicle after it was found packed at a building at Mirema estate in Zimmerman Kasarani. The driver was carjacked and violently robbed the vehicle he was driving from Mombasa at Mlolongo on Saturday by three men and a woman. A suspect was arrested and taken to mlolongo police where the crime was reported. [PHOTO: TABITHA OTWORI]

KENYA: Police in Nairobi have identified a highway gang that has reportedly stolen about 200 cars in the past few months between Mombasa and Nairobi.

Officers who spoke to The Standard said the gang, which is led by a group of three men and a woman known only as Njeri, operates between Athi-River and Mlolongo where at least two vehicles are reported stolen each day.