8 November 2009
The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is investigating how an alleged hijacker was found dead in the back of a police van minutes after his arrest on Friday night.
The man died after a high-speed car chase from Milnerton to Viking Way, Goodwood, after a vehicle was hijacked in Milnerton.
Several shots were fired during the chase.
The hijackers apparently lost control of the car, mounted a centre island and smashed into a palm tree.
At least one person fled the scene as police converged on the car, but another man was apprehended. Metro rescue paramedics examined the man and said he was not injured.
The suspect was put into a police van, but minutes later he was dead.
Details were sketchy late yesterday, with the local police referring all queries to the Independent Complaints Directorate.
ICD spokesperson Moses Dlamini said a post-mortem would be performed tomorrow to determine cause of death.
The man's name and age have not been released.
In a separate incident early yesterday, a man was arrested when he was found with a shoebox full of tik and a large amount of money, following a car chase through Woodstock.
The 35-year-old man was sitting in his car in Wright Street. When police approached him he drove off, and they gave chase.
He was apprehended in Albert Street and police found a brown shoe box with 800g of tik, with an estimated street value of R200 000.
He is in police custody and will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court tomorrow on a charge of possession and dealing in drugs.
Meanwhile, the police's Organised Crime Investigation Unit arrested six men for the possession of heroin in Mitchells Plain on Friday night.
Police followed up on information from the public about a white double-cab Toyota which was suspected to contain drugs.
The double-cab was spotted in Caravel Road and its driver was ordered to stop.
The six occupants and vehicle were searched and heroin was discovered and confiscated. The heroin's value is estimated to be R300 000.
The suspects, aged between 30 and 50, were all from Mitchells Plain.
They will be charged for possession of heroin and appear in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate's Court tomorrow.
Nine people were arrested in Woodstock yesterdayfor possession of an unlicensed firearm, ammunition and dagga.
Woodstock police spokesperson Hilton Malila said police in civilian clothes had noticed drug-trafficking at a Bromwell Street house during a stop-and-search patrol.
Police found a loaded .38 special revolver, with its serial number filed off, and eight rounds of ammunition. Ninety three stops of dagga, with a street value of R700, were found hidden in a room.
The police arrested four men and five women.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver was shot dead in Rosendal, Delft on Friday night.
Police spokesman Captain Frederick van Wyk said the driver, 49, had stopped to allow passengers to alight when a passenger fired two shots at him.
The driver, who was shot once in the back of the head, died at the scene.
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