The Provincial Organised Crime unit yielded good successes in arresting a 41-year-old man and recovered stolen goods with an estimated value of R950 000-00. The arrests were made after the vehicle hijacking task team received information of a suspect that were busy selling stolen property (copper fittings) at a scrap metal dealer in Korsten.
The information of the stolen property linked up with a truck hijacking that was reported at Mount Road SAPS on Thursday, 18 January 2018, in Newton Park area at approximately 16:45. The driver and the passenger of a truck were stopped by a Corsa vehicle and they were called out of the vehicle and gun pointed and forced into the Corsa and two suspects drove off with the truck containing copper fittings and pallets with bathroom accessories. The suspect drove off with the complainant and the passenger and later dropped them off in Markman.
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