Court Approves Extradition of Minnesota Murder Suspect Arrested in Ongata Rongai

The Nairobi court has given an order of extradition to a Kenyan man who is wanted in the United States of America to face charges of murder.

While delivering the ruling, Milimani Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina nodded to the application by the Director of Public Prosecution DPP to hand Hudeife Muhumed Mire to the US government for trial.

The application followed the issuance of a warrant of arrest against the respondent by the United States District Court in the State of Minnesota on July 5, 2022, in accordance with the manner authorised by law for extradition in Kenya.

The US government wanted the respondent to face murder charges in the third degree, sell/give/distribute controlled substances, manslaughter in the third degree, culpable negligence, creating unreasonable risk and drug first Degree and Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP).

Mire allegedly sold narcotics laced with deadly fentanyl that caused the death of a woman identified as Samantha Myers on April 16, 2022, in Minnesota.

He then fled from the State of Minnesota and travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, with the intent to evade prosecution, thereby constituting an extraditable offence under Kenyan law.

The DCI had informed the court that it had received a formal request from INTERPOL Washington and the U.S. Department of Justice, via INTERPOL Nairobi, for the fugitive’s provisional arrest pending extradition.

The extradition request was in accordance with Section 4 of the Extradition (Contiguous and Foreign Countries) Act, Cap. 76, and Article 2(6) of the Constitution, which recognises international treaties ratified by Kenya as part of domestic law.

Mire, a holder of a U.S. Passport, was arrested on October 29, 2025, in the Ongata Rongai area of Kajiado County by detectives attached to the DCI’s Economic and Commercial Crimes Unit.

He was booked at Gigiri Police Station under OB No. 50/29/10/2025 at 8:00 p.m.

The magistrate ordered the respondent to be detained at Gigiri police station as he awaits extradition.