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> Democrats elected Kenyan Obama and the scum of that country began
> draining into the USA.
Nairobi, Kenya
CNN
—
It had been three months since Maggie Mbitu was found dead at Boston’s
airport, and authorities seemed no closer to finding the man suspected
of killing her and fleeing the country.
But this week, they finally got a break. On Monday night an undercover
officer spotted someone who looked like the suspect at a nightclub 7,000
miles away in Nairobi, Kenya, and struck up a conversation with him, a
police official told CNN.
Within hours authorities identified the man as fugitive Kevin Kangethe,
a Boston-area man who US investigators said boarded a plane to Kenya
shortly after killing his girlfriend. Authorities in Massachusetts had
obtained a warrant for Kangethe’s arrest on a murder charge.
Mbitu’s body was found in Kangethe’s SUV in a parking garage at Boston
Logan International Airport on November 1, two days after she was
reported missing. The 31-year-old had slash wounds on her face and neck,
Massachusetts State Police said in an affidavit.
The arrest in Nairobi happened after someone alerted police that a man
at the club resembled images of the suspect they’d seen on social media,
said Adamson Bungei, the Nairobi regional police commander.
An undercover police officer sent to the club spotted Kangethe and
notified a team of fellow undercover officers, who then approached him
and interrogated him “in a friendly way,” Bungei told CNN.
Through the conversation, officers “made the connections positively
identifying him,” Bungei said.
Kangethe did not resist arrest and had his passport with him, which
helped confirm his identification, said Francis Sang, a subcounty police
commander. Sang declined to say whether it was a Kenyan or American
passport or share what officers and Kangethe talked about before his
arrest.
Kevin Hayden, District Attorney of Suffolk County in suburban Boston,
thanked the US State Department, the FBI, the state police, the Kenyan
government and Kenyan law enforcement agencies for facilitating the
arrest.
“Their tremendous and untiring efforts will provide Margaret’s family
and friends the opportunity to see Kevin Kangethe face justice for this
terrible crime,” Hayden said in a statement.
Authorities are seeking to have Kangethe extradited to the US
Kangethe arrived in Kenya last fall through Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport, the nation’s director of public prosecutions said
in a statement. He went into hiding in the city’s suburbs but stayed in
touch via phone with his friends and relatives, including those in the
United States, the statement said.
The 41-year-old appeared in court Thursday for a hearing on his
extradition.
Kenya has an extradition treaty with the United States. The nation’s
director of public prosecutions said Kenya has received a formal
extradition request from the US and determined there’s “sufficient
evidence” against him.
“The threshold for his extradition has been met,” the director of public
prosecutions wrote in a motion filed in court. The prosecutions office
also said it opposes Kangethe’s release on bail during the extradition
proceedings.
His attorney, David Muthama, told CNN that he plans to challenge the
extradition request.
“He is innocent until a court of law finds him otherwise. I’m aware he
has been condemned by the court of public opinion,” he added. Muthama
said his client plans to plead not guilty.
It was Kangethe’s second court appearance since his arrest. His first
hearing was Wednesday, a day after his arrest. He wore eyeglasses and
occasionally looked down as the prosecutor asked the court to detain him
for 30 days so US officials can work out the extradition process.
“Have you understood the application by the prosecutor?” the judge
asked. Kangethe nodded. “Do you have any objections?” The judge asked.
Kangethe shook his head.
A US Diplomatic Security Service official declined to comment on how the
extradition process works.
“As a matter of longstanding policy, the Department does not comment on
pending extradition matters, including whether or not a particular
request has been made,” the official told CNN in an email.
Police have not revealed a motive in the killing
Mbitu lived in Whitman, a Boston suburb, and was the youngest in a
family of health care workers. Her two older sisters and her mother are
all nurses.
She was reported missing in late October after she didn’t show up for
work, which was uncommon for her.
Her family notified the police and called nearby hospitals to check if
she was a patient. The next evening, police made a gruesome discovery:
her bloodied body, in the SUV inside a parking garage at the airport.
In a criminal complaint from the Massachusetts State Police, authorities
say they “were led to Mbitu’s boyfriend” after she went missing.
The day before her body was found, Kangethe boarded flights from Boston
to Kenya. Surveillance footage showed him leaving the parking garage and
entering an airport terminal, police said.
Investigators learned he had bought a plane ticket the previous morning,
state police said.
Kangethe lived in Lowell, a suburb northwest of Boston. License plate
recognition cameras had picked up the whereabouts of his Toyota SUV and
it appeared consistent with the location of Mbitu’s phone, according to
the criminal complaint.
Authorities tracked the vehicle from Lowell to the Logan Airport parking
garage, where they found her dead in the car. Police have not divulged
a possible motive, leaving her family and friends to grapple with
unanswered questions — and their grief.
“I’m so angry, I’m still trying to process everything,” Ann Mbitu, her
older sister, told CNN in November. “At 31, we’re not supposed to be
planning her funeral. We’re supposed to be planning celebrations,
birthdays, weddings, travel.”
Law enforcement officials in Kenya tracked Kangethe’s whereabouts there
while US state and federal authorities coordinated his arrest, the
Massachusetts State Police said.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/world/boston-murder-suspect-kenya-arrest-c
ec/index.html
news:sv16c0$mqc$2...@dont-email.me:
> Democrats elected Kenyan Obama and the scum of that country began
> draining into the USA.
Nairobi, Kenya
CNN
—
It had been three months since Maggie Mbitu was found dead at Boston’s
airport, and authorities seemed no closer to finding the man suspected
of killing her and fleeing the country.
But this week, they finally got a break. On Monday night an undercover
officer spotted someone who looked like the suspect at a nightclub 7,000
miles away in Nairobi, Kenya, and struck up a conversation with him, a
police official told CNN.
Within hours authorities identified the man as fugitive Kevin Kangethe,
a Boston-area man who US investigators said boarded a plane to Kenya
shortly after killing his girlfriend. Authorities in Massachusetts had
obtained a warrant for Kangethe’s arrest on a murder charge.
Mbitu’s body was found in Kangethe’s SUV in a parking garage at Boston
Logan International Airport on November 1, two days after she was
reported missing. The 31-year-old had slash wounds on her face and neck,
Massachusetts State Police said in an affidavit.
The arrest in Nairobi happened after someone alerted police that a man
at the club resembled images of the suspect they’d seen on social media,
said Adamson Bungei, the Nairobi regional police commander.
An undercover police officer sent to the club spotted Kangethe and
notified a team of fellow undercover officers, who then approached him
and interrogated him “in a friendly way,” Bungei told CNN.
Through the conversation, officers “made the connections positively
identifying him,” Bungei said.
Kangethe did not resist arrest and had his passport with him, which
helped confirm his identification, said Francis Sang, a subcounty police
commander. Sang declined to say whether it was a Kenyan or American
passport or share what officers and Kangethe talked about before his
arrest.
Kevin Hayden, District Attorney of Suffolk County in suburban Boston,
thanked the US State Department, the FBI, the state police, the Kenyan
government and Kenyan law enforcement agencies for facilitating the
arrest.
“Their tremendous and untiring efforts will provide Margaret’s family
and friends the opportunity to see Kevin Kangethe face justice for this
terrible crime,” Hayden said in a statement.
Authorities are seeking to have Kangethe extradited to the US
Kangethe arrived in Kenya last fall through Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport, the nation’s director of public prosecutions said
in a statement. He went into hiding in the city’s suburbs but stayed in
touch via phone with his friends and relatives, including those in the
United States, the statement said.
The 41-year-old appeared in court Thursday for a hearing on his
extradition.
Kenya has an extradition treaty with the United States. The nation’s
director of public prosecutions said Kenya has received a formal
extradition request from the US and determined there’s “sufficient
evidence” against him.
“The threshold for his extradition has been met,” the director of public
prosecutions wrote in a motion filed in court. The prosecutions office
also said it opposes Kangethe’s release on bail during the extradition
proceedings.
His attorney, David Muthama, told CNN that he plans to challenge the
extradition request.
“He is innocent until a court of law finds him otherwise. I’m aware he
has been condemned by the court of public opinion,” he added. Muthama
said his client plans to plead not guilty.
It was Kangethe’s second court appearance since his arrest. His first
hearing was Wednesday, a day after his arrest. He wore eyeglasses and
occasionally looked down as the prosecutor asked the court to detain him
for 30 days so US officials can work out the extradition process.
“Have you understood the application by the prosecutor?” the judge
asked. Kangethe nodded. “Do you have any objections?” The judge asked.
Kangethe shook his head.
A US Diplomatic Security Service official declined to comment on how the
extradition process works.
“As a matter of longstanding policy, the Department does not comment on
pending extradition matters, including whether or not a particular
request has been made,” the official told CNN in an email.
Police have not revealed a motive in the killing
Mbitu lived in Whitman, a Boston suburb, and was the youngest in a
family of health care workers. Her two older sisters and her mother are
all nurses.
She was reported missing in late October after she didn’t show up for
work, which was uncommon for her.
Her family notified the police and called nearby hospitals to check if
she was a patient. The next evening, police made a gruesome discovery:
her bloodied body, in the SUV inside a parking garage at the airport.
In a criminal complaint from the Massachusetts State Police, authorities
say they “were led to Mbitu’s boyfriend” after she went missing.
The day before her body was found, Kangethe boarded flights from Boston
to Kenya. Surveillance footage showed him leaving the parking garage and
entering an airport terminal, police said.
Investigators learned he had bought a plane ticket the previous morning,
state police said.
Kangethe lived in Lowell, a suburb northwest of Boston. License plate
recognition cameras had picked up the whereabouts of his Toyota SUV and
it appeared consistent with the location of Mbitu’s phone, according to
the criminal complaint.
Authorities tracked the vehicle from Lowell to the Logan Airport parking
garage, where they found her dead in the car. Police have not divulged
a possible motive, leaving her family and friends to grapple with
unanswered questions — and their grief.
“I’m so angry, I’m still trying to process everything,” Ann Mbitu, her
older sister, told CNN in November. “At 31, we’re not supposed to be
planning her funeral. We’re supposed to be planning celebrations,
birthdays, weddings, travel.”
Law enforcement officials in Kenya tracked Kangethe’s whereabouts there
while US state and federal authorities coordinated his arrest, the
Massachusetts State Police said.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/world/boston-murder-suspect-kenya-arrest-c
ec/index.html
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