A 29-year-old man was arrested by KwaDabeka police on Thursday 18 January 2018, at about 11:00 for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, and pointing with a firearm. It is alleged that the suspect owns a shop in KwaDabeka and he offered a job to two local men. When they finished working, they requested their earnings from the suspect, instead of paying them he took out his firearm, pointed it at them and ordered them to leave his shop. The victims left the shop and opened a case at KwaDabeka police station. When the police went to investigate they found the suspect in possession of a silver revolver and 48 live rounds of ammunition. The firearm will be taken for ballistic testing for analysis to ascertain if it was used in the commission of other crimes. He is expected to appear before the Pinetown Magistrates’ Court soon.
In another operation, Pinetown police arrested two suspects aged 19 and 20 were arrested in Pinetown for attempted carjacking. A 29-year-old woman from Umlazi was sitting in her vehicle, a white VW Golf GTI at the parking lot on Chancery Lane in Pinetown when she was approached by an unknown man who pointed at her with an okapi knife and instructed her to get out of the vehicle. The engine of the vehicle was off at the time and the woman was sitting with her eight-year-old daughter, the daughter opened the front passenger door and the woman threw the vehicle keys out of the passenger door. During the confrontation between the woman and the one suspect, another man came out of nowhere. The woman’s daughter picked up the key from the ground and ran towards the shopping centre; while the child was running the woman helplessly watched the second suspect chasing her child and took the key from her. At this point the woman got out of her car and started screaming for help. The two suspects got into the woman’s vehicle and got ready to getaway however, to their calamity, the members of the public together with the shopping centre security came to the woman’s rescue. Both suspects were arrested by the community and handed over to the police. They were charged with attempted carjacking and are expected to appear before Pinetown Magistrates’ Court soon.
KwaZulu-Natal Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Bheki Langa praised the members for arresting the suspects. “We applaud the members of the community and the security guards for assisting in the apprehension of the suspects,” he said. #PartnershipPolicing #FightingCrime