The Directorate Of Criminal Investigation has arrested five suspects who allegedly kidnapped a man and demanded ransom for his freedom.

In the sting operation that was conducted on Thursday, May 26, detectives pounced on the gang in a house where one of the victims was being held incommunicado and was stark naked, as the five suspects comprising of three women and two men waited for an Mpesa transaction of Kshs 100,000 to set the man free.

“The man had called his relatives claiming that he had been involved in a road accident and needed Ksha100,000 for treatment. The special agents who had followed cyber forensic leads to the house where the victim was being held, connected the crime to an incident that occurred last month, where a man was accosted in Parklands and robbed off Sh450,000,” the statement made by the DCI on Friday, May 27.

According to the sleuths, the women notoriously orchestrate schemes where they lure unsuspecting men from social networking sites before leading them to a room where the man is held hostage and asked to buy his freedom.

Most of these men are entrapped with promises of sexual favors which lead them to fall into the hands of their tormenters.

 “In a well-choreographed plan, the three damsels who were arrested prey for men online, promising them blissful moments with a happy ending and the wowed men easily fall into the trap hook, line and sinker,” the DCI said Friday.

The suspects are reported to have a preference for Caucasian men, and they lure them into a house behind Ruaraka’s Naivas supermarket with two or three ladies promising them an eventful night.

“But moments before they get down, a rude knock suddenly interrupts the occasion as a man posing as a boyfriend to one of the women suddenly appears, throwing a spanner in the works of an eventful evening. What follows are demands for a ransom depending on how deep one’s pockets are,” the DCI added.

Police have identified the suspects as Joseph Makau Mulatya, Patrick Wekesa Omosa, Rehema Njeri, Vigilance Mumbi and Hadija Ong’ai.

Detectives have processed them to answer to robbery with violence charges on the morning of Friday , May 27.