Two men Owen Joseph Malai and Patrick Antony Mwakio have been arrested in Majaoni area, Mombasa by detectives of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. The two had been recorded by a CCTV breaking into a parked car. In this planned crime, one of the suspected men, Owen was driving the car which he had faked a mechanical problem in a bid to allow his partner to break into the parked car.
Reports by the DCI say that one more suspect – Borris Mutua- had already been arrested. A Toyota Ractis with the registration KCX 726Q was recovered during the operation and the same car had been recorded on CCTV with different plates KCU 113P within Nyali.