A multi-disciplinary, integrated Intelligence-driven operation led to the arrest of seven suspected cash-in-transit (CIT) robbers aged between 28 and 45 years during midmorning yesterday in three separate areas.
According to Intelligence, the alleged robbers were planning on robbing the Belfast Post Office in Mpumalanga.
However, the joint team comprising of members of Head Office & West Rand Crime Intelligence, the Hawks, Ekurhuleni Tactical Team and private security responded. In the first of three takedown operations, the team arrested two suspects in a VW Polo and seized one firearm at Bhekumuzi Masango Street in Belfast.
During a simultaneous takedown, a second vehicle was intercepted about 20kms away from the targeted post office and three suspects traveling in a Toyota bakkie were arrested on the N4 highway and they were found in possession of three firearms.
In a third simultaneous takedown, another VW Polo was intercepted by an Ekurhuleni team in which two suspects were arrested. They were found with rounds of live ammunition for heavy caliber weapons as well as a set of Free State number plates hidden under one of the seats of the car.
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