{"id":186020,"date":"2024-12-06T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-four-suspects-arrested-selling-guns-to-undercover-police-in-meru\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:19:04","slug":"kenya-four-suspects-arrested-selling-guns-to-undercover-police-in-meru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-four-suspects-arrested-selling-guns-to-undercover-police-in-meru\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Four Suspects Arrested Selling Guns to Undercover Police in Meru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>There was drama in Maua Town, Meru County when four suspects were arrested as they blindly sold rifles to undercover police officers in Maua Town, Meru County.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Police said two AK47 rifles with two bullets were recovered from them in the Thursday afternoon operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">A team of detectives posing as buyers of the arms lured the four and engaged in a negotiation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The suspects, according to police, arrived aboard a motorcycle with the arms concealed in a miraa bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">They had agreed to meet&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060213.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 There was drama in Maua Town, Meru County when four suspects were arrested as they blindly sold rifles to undercover police officers in Maua Town, Meru County. Police said two AK47 rifles with two bullets were recovered from them in the Thursday afternoon operation. A team of detectives posing as buyers of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":186021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4304,2235,4688,430,5911,257,662,11904,254,4360,26112],"class_list":["post-186020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-guns","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-meru","tag-news","tag-police","tag-selling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects","tag-undercover"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}