DCI on Thursday recovered An AK 47 rifle loaded with 26 rounds of ammunition after a Toyota Probox en route to Moyale from Marsabit, was intercepted by officers.
A 24-year-old man, Rob Diba Dabasa (the lone driver), was also arrested, having chambered one of the rounds in readiness to fire.
The suspect has been placed in custody pending arraignment, with the recoveries including the motor vehicle Reg. No. KCY 331V being secured as an exhibit.
Meanwhile, DCI on Wednesday night arrested a man who defiled his seven-year-old step-daughter in Nyeri county.
The 48-Year-old man who committed the crime on Tuesday was arrested on Wednesday night by DCI detectives.
According to the DCI director George Kinoti, the suspect, a casual labourer at Nairutia centre, is said to have defiled the vulnerable minor when her mother was away.
The man then later left the girl helpless and went to his workplace.
Kinoti said that the suspect resides in a two-bedroom house with his wife and the victim.
"The three share one of the bedrooms and a common bed, leaving the other room unoccupied," he said.
The DCI said that in the company of two female neighbours in whose home the girl had sought refuge, the grade one pupil narrated her ordeal to the shock of Gender Desk officers, moments before the suspect was traced and nabbed.
