{"id":230748,"date":"2026-04-20T02:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-arrested-as-police-recover-stolen-gun-in-rongai\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:18:19","slug":"kenya-two-arrested-as-police-recover-stolen-gun-in-rongai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-arrested-as-police-recover-stolen-gun-in-rongai\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Two Arrested As Police Recover Stolen Gun in Rongai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Detectives in Kajiado North have arrested two suspects and recovered a firearm that had earlier been stolen from a police officer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The operation, carried out jointly by DCI officers and police from Ngong Police Station, targeted Kware and Mandazi Road areas in Rongai town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The suspects aged 54, and 49 respectively, were arrested following an intelligence-led crackdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">DCI officers recovered a magazine loaded with 15 rounds of 9mm ammunition and a quantity of gun oil during the search&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170397.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 Detectives in Kajiado North have arrested two suspects and recovered a firearm that had earlier been stolen from a police officer. The operation, carried out jointly by DCI officers and police from Ngong Police Station, targeted Kware and Mandazi Road areas in Rongai town. The suspects aged 54, and 49 respectively, were arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4304,20300,4688,430,257,662,11725,54207,254,8996],"class_list":["post-230748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-gun","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-recover","tag-rongai","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stolen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/230748","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=230748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}