NAIROBI, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- A police man and two civilians were arrested in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, while transporting elephant tusks valued at 3,000 U.S. dollars.
The officer attached to a police station in Machakos County of eastern Kenya and his accomplices, who were arrested on Monday night, appeared in a Nairobi court on Tuesday.
The three suspects appeared before Kibera Chief Magistrate Ann Ongijo on Tuesday and denied charges of possession and trafficking of ivory and were each released on a 5,000 dollars bond and the case will be heard on December 5.
According to investigators, the three suspects had previously arrested suspects with the ivory then decided to hide it in the police officer's house.
The officer then decided to move with the 8-kg ivory after he was transferred to another location but was nabbed along the way.
The arrest comes after the High Court last month sentenced ivory kingpin, Feisal Mohamed to 20 years imprisonment and pay 20,000 dollars for trafficking in ivory worth 440,000 dollars in the coastal city of Mombasa.
Mohamed was found in possession of 314 pieces of ivory weighing more than 2.1 tonnes, including 228 complete elephant tusk.
