Posts tagged with 'suspects'

 

Suspects responsible for the spate of truck hijackings in Delmas area were dressed in police uniforms and those of South African Revenue Service

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A search was launched for the suspects responsible for a spate of truck hijackings in the Delmas area of ​​Mpumalanga.

According to Brig. Police spokesman Leonard Hlathi, two trucks from the same company transported soy from Bronkhorstspruit to Standerton was hijacked on the R50 on Monday evening at about 20:30.

Hlathi says one of the trucks was apparently experiencing mechanical problems after which the driver pulled off the road. The drivers of the other truck also stopped along the way to provide assistance.

“Four armed suspects then allegedly stopped at the scene with a white Nissan delivery vehicle and overpowered the truck drivers. The drivers were tied up with their shoelaces and loaded into the trucks.

“The suspects apparently drove the trucks to an unknown location and unloaded 40 tons of soy to the value of R400 000. The truck drivers were then dropped off in a field. The two trucks were spotted in the early hours of Tuesday. ”

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Stolen vehicle found full of explosives after farm attack – suspicion exists that attackers may want to use it to commit other crimes

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The AfriForum neighborhood watch in Wit Rivier, in collaboration with the SAPS today, found a Toyota Fortuner that was used during a farm attack.

Wit rivier – According to Hennie Bekker, the district coordinator of Lowveld AfriForum, a farmer was checking the border fences on his farm when he was robbed.

An unknown number of suspects jumped from another vehicle, arrested the farmer and then drove off with his vehicle. The farmer was left unharmed in the attack that took place at around 10pm last night.

The White River neighborhood watch was notified of the attack and robbery on Sunday evening just before midnight, and launched a search for the suspects who were allegedly armed.

Johan Pelser, the security chairman of AfriForum, confirms that neighborhood watch members spotted the silver Fortuner, without number plates, at a Total gas station in kaBokweni. Neighborhood watch members and the SAPS followed the vehicle and followed it to Masoyi. The vehicle was
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Major breakthrough in murders at retirement home – Female caregiver at retirement centre is a suspect

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The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga has hailed the sterling efforts of the Mount Road Cluster Detective Trio Task Team and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) in Port Elizabeth for their incessant investigation of the double murders which took place at a retirement centre in Stella Londt Drive in Port Elizabeth.

It is alleged that on Thursday, 10 October 2019, at about 05:45, staff found two elderly women murdered in separate rooms at the Retirement Centre.

It is further alleged that during the early hours of the morning, an unknown number of suspects entered the premises through an unlocked door and security gate on the upper level of the main building in the complex.

The suspects entered the first room where they confronted Ms Agnes Elaine Burns (91). She was found on the bed with her feet and hands tied and her mouth gagged. The room was ransacked. The suspects then entered another room further down the passa
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Teacher involved in the kidnapping of 6-year-old Amy-Leigh

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A fifty-year-old man and two women described by police as the protagonists in Monday’s kidnapping drama of 6-year-old Amy-Leigh de Jager were arrested at their homes in Vanderbijlpark on Wednesday, September 4, around midnight.

Amy-Leigh was grabbed from school by her mother, Angeline, just after 7:15 a.m. Monday morning, and kidnapped by four men in a Toyota Fortuner with darkened panes. She was found crying along the road at the Shakespeare Inn in Faraday Boulevard, Vanderbijlpark, on Tuesday, September 3, by a man and a woman.

A teacher at College Park Primary School in Vanderbijlpark is reportedly one of three suspects arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Amy.

Police did not want to respond to allegations by Wednesday afternoon that the elementary school teacher – who is believed to be a good friend of the family – was involved in the kidnapping.

This despite the fact that the College Park Primary School co
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Five arrested after gruesome Boshof farm murder where couple were tied up, brutally beaten, shot

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On 12 July 2019, at about 17:30, Mr van den Berg left to take a worker back to town, leaving his wife at home. On the way back to the farm, he stopped to open his farm gate when he was allegedly overpowered by six suspects. He was then taken back to his house where together with his wife were tied up, brutally beaten and shot. Both died at the scene.

The suspects ransacked the house and stole several items, including four (4) firearms, and the deceased’s vehicle, which was later recovered embedded in the mud in the Caledon River bed en route to Lesotho.

A 72 hours joint lockdown by the SAPS and the Hawks in the Free State, initiated by the Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Moeketsi Sempe following the gruesome murder of Isak Johannes Jacobus (Sakkie) van den Berg (67) and his wife Ina Ockenlina (61) in Bloubos farm in Boshof district, resulted in the arrest of five suspects in Bloemfontein and Dealesville respectively.

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The African Way, always space for one more even if it involves sheep! Police recovered 30 stolen sheep in taxi in Eastern Cape – 5 suspects arrested

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Five people have been arrested for allegedly stealing 30 sheep, which they loaded into a taxi in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape.

Police spokesperson Capt Ursula Roelofse said police followed up on information that the sheep were being transported in the taxi early on Friday morning.

The vehicle was stopped and the suspects arrested. Police recovered 30 sheep.

Roelofse said the suspects were allegedly part of a syndicate operating in the Eastern Cape and Free State.

The men, aged between 22 and 39, are expected to appear in the Aliwal North Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

-Sowetan Live / 2019-07-22
This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

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Stash of SAPS protective gear , ammunition and weapons recovered during raid, two arrested – How did the criminals obtain the SAPS items?

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Police on Friday evening, 26 July 2019, traced and arrested two suspects in Hillbrow in a follow-up operation after police had earlier in the day recovered protective gear used by the South African Police Service Public Order Police at a block of flats in Hillbrow. The members found at Cape Agulhas building 24 SAPS helmets, 12 SAPS riot shields, and drugs including dagga, abandoned in a store room.

Police earlier in the day conducted an OKae Molao operation where a number of buildings in Hillbrow had been flagged as generating high volumes of contact crime.

Other buildings visited were Kirribilli, Eastgate, Florence Nightingale and O’Riley; and police arrested 22 undocumented foreign nationals, two suspects for possession of and dealing in drugs. Two illegal liquor outlets were closed and liquor confiscated. Three more suspects were arrested for business robbery at Joubert.

Gauteng Provincial Commissioner of police, Lieutenant General Elias Ma
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