Kenyan police find 30,000 bullets, arrest suspect already facing gunrunning charges

Kenyan police find new cache of 30,000 bullets

NAROK, Kenya — Kenya’s police chief says officers have seized another cache of bullets at the premises of a man already facing charges for a separate arms seizure last year.

Matthew Iteere says police found the Kenyan and Czech-made bullets in a container at Munir Ahmed’s garage. He says police seized two other containers but are yet to confirm their contents.

Most of the 30,000 bullets are Kenyan, Iteere says. Such bullets are made at a government plant and only issued to Kenya’s armed forces.

Lawyer Cliff Ombeta says his client could not have been involved with the latest cache because he had been in police custody since Dec. 8.

Ahmed was arrested after police found up to 100,000 bullets and an assortment of guns at his home and business premises.