{"id":249645,"date":"2026-11-10T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-dci-recovers-sh3-6bn-drugs-in-kwale-arrests-three-suspects\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T06:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:30:46","slug":"kenya-dci-recovers-sh3-6bn-drugs-in-kwale-arrests-three-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-dci-recovers-sh3-6bn-drugs-in-kwale-arrests-three-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: DCI Recovers Sh3.6bn Drugs in Kwale, Arrests Three Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 Detectives have seized 454 kilogrammes of suspected methamphetamine worth an estimated Sh3.6 billion in Kwale County, arresting three suspects, including a Kenyan-Tanzanian fugitive described by investigators as a notorious drug baron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The seizure followed an intelligence-led operation involving Kenyan and Tanzanian security agencies, which culminated in the arrest of the suspects in Shirazi and Kinondo areas of Kwale County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Director&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611090530.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 have seized 454 kilogrammes of suspected methamphetamine worth an estimated Sh3.6 billion in Kwale County, arresting three suspects, including a Kenyan-Tanzanian fugitive described by investigators as a notorious drug baron. The seizure followed an intelligence-led operation involving Kenyan and Tanzanian security agencies, which culminated in the arrest of the suspects in Shirazi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":249646,"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":[258,256,7845,15353,6614,4688,430,17905,257,10941,55805,254,4360],"class_list":["post-249645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-dci","tag-drugs","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kwale","tag-news","tag-recovers","tag-sh3-6bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects"],"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\/249645","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=249645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}