A suspect linked to the fatal stabbing of a policeman outside a bar in Muhuru Bay, Nyatike, Migori County, was arrested at the Kenya-Tanzania border.
Police said the suspect was arrested at Kona 7
Trading Centre while trying to cross to Tanzania.
He had sought help to cross the border in a bid to evade being arrested, police said.
This was almost 15 hours after he had stabbed the policeman and killed him in the same area on Friday morning.
The area is near the main Kenya-Tanzania border.
The suspect, who is a Kenyan from the area, is on Monday July 14 expected in court over the murder, police said.
Constable Gilbert Kibet, who was attached to the Kenya Revenue Authority Muhuru Bay Station, was stabbed and killed for unclear reasons, police said.
His body was found on Friday, July 11 found outside a bar long after his attack at about 4 am.
Blood was oozing from the neck where he had been attacked, police said.
He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was confirmed dead.
Police said the victim was stabbed on the left side of the neck by the assailant, who fled the scene.
The body, which had a stab wound on the neck, moved to the Migori Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.
According to police, the murder weapon, which was a broken bottle, was recovered at the scene.
It is not clear what prompted the attack. Police said they are investigating the incident ahead of a planned autopsy and movement of the body to his rural home for burial plans
Meanwhile, police are holding a suspect who operates an electronic repair workshop in Mathare area, Nairobi.
This is after they recovered several suspected stolen electronic items, including 72 mobile phones, two laptops, a Universal Flashing Interface (UFI), a Pandora device, a camera, two external hard drives and a CPU.
Police said 32 of the recovered mobile phones
have already been positively identified by complainants from M-KOPA Company.
The raid
followed claims that the shop was receiving stolen electronic goods.
A hunt for more suspects in the saga is ongoing, police said, as they added they had intensified the probe into the trend.
