Another firearm recovered at Wanderers taxi rank

Police arrested a 20-year-old male for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition at Wanderers taxi rank corner Noord and Wanderers Streets on Saturday, 20 June 2020 at 13:00.

Police were busy with their routine crime prevention duties of stop and searches in the taxi rank; they saw a suspicious male jumping inside a taxi to Durban. They requested him to come out with his sports bag, they searched him and recovered a disassembled shotgun with live ammunition. He failed to produce a license to possess a firearm.

The firearm will be sent for ballistic testing to ascertain if it was used in the commission of serious and violent crimes.

The investigation is underway and the suspect is appearing today in the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court.

Johannesburg Central Station Commander commended members for removing another firearm from the wrongful hands and suspect apprehended. He urged the community to work hand in hand with the police to root out wrongful people from society.